Now for a half-time team talk for the Labour leadership campaign teams: “You are out on your feet and fear of making a mistake is encouraging you to play it safe.” Candidates and campaign managers spent enough time with each other travelling the country and in Labour’s sweaty war room during the general election, but the pep talk has a familiar ring to it…
A new Tory poster says “Let’s cut benefits for those who refuse work”. The policy has been law for 15 years and shows the lack of imagination on welfare reform.
David Miliband has criticised the Conservative party for changing their values. Jonty Olliff-Cooper replies that Tory tradition goes back further than Thatcher.
There were blank faces all round as a panel of experts at Demos’s event last nightseemed to shrug “Simon Who?” in response to a question about the X-Factor Tsar
New Labour think tank Demos release a video looking at power, ahead of their launch of a “power map” on Monday.
A panel of experts believe the current economic situation will require the government to seriously re-think their defence spending options.
In George Osborne’s speech to Demos last week, he looked to Sweden to provide evidence for how a Conservative government could reform the education system and provide “more for less” while also delivering high standards. But the reforms would cost £1.2 billion and it’s not clear that the Swedish system is the panacea that the Conservative Party suggest.
