Miliband: “Tories were encouraging us to deregulate further”
Ed Miliband and Ed Balls have accused the Conservative party of trying to drive the last government further away from regulating the activity of the City of London.
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Top pollster warns: “Labour should be doing better”
YouGov president Peter Kellner today warned Labour they should be “miles ahead” in the opinion polls as anger over the coalition cuts continues to grow.
Johnson resigns as Shadow Chancellor – Balls takes over
Alan Johnson shocked Westminster today by resigning as Shadow Chanellor for “personal reasons to do with my family”. Ed Balls is the new Shadow Chancellor.
Miliband: “Let’s work with the progressive Lib Dems”
Ed Miliband held out the ‘hand of friendship’ to Lib Dems “appalled” at the direction “Nick Clegg and his hench-people” had taken the party, reports Shamik Das.
Latest attack on Ed Miliband not backed up by the facts
As the cuts debate rages, the ippr’s senior economist Tony Dolphin looks at whether the latest critique of Ed Miliband’s economic policy is justified.
Ed Miliband is right to expose the Tory “deceit” on debt
Ed Miliband has come out fighting in today’s Times pointing out Tory “deceit” on the deficit. The truth is uncomfortable for the Government.
Building a grassroots movement is the key test for Labour in 2011
Caroline Badley, Labour’s campaign manager in Birmingham Edgbaston, looks at the challenges facing the party in 2011.
Tackling climate change requires a just transition to a low carbon economy
When he was environment secretary, David Miliband asserted that only Labour could tackle climate change. He argued that this was because only Labour recognised the need to intervene in markets. The Conservatives’ instincts, he said, would always pre-dispose them to solutions that stopped short of the measures necessary to set our economy on the route towards a low carbon, sustainable future. This, of course, was after the Stern report which had said that climate change was the greatest market failure the world had ever seen.
Labour must speak out against discriminatory pay for foreign seafarers
Ruwan Subasinghe, a lawyer at the International Transport Workers’ Federation, on the need for Labour to speak out to end discriminatory pay for seafarers.
Miliband attacks “shoddy” fees scheme
Ed miliband responded to David Cameron on tuition fees today, attacking the “shoddy scheme” the government is proposing. Yesterday, the prime minister, in a column in the Standard, defended the trebling of fees, and said that “before protesting, students need to get the facts straight”. Today, the Leader of the Opposition said “universities and students deserve better” than what the government is offering.