As predictable headlines follow Ed Miliband committing to speak at the TUC rally on March 26th, Rob Marchant takes a more detached look at how the relationships between Party, movement and workplace demographics interact.
Labour struggles to define itself, as “fairness” is on everyone’s lips, reports George Hull, researcher and teacher of political philosophy at UCL.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 has come out fighting in today’s Times pointing out Tory “deceit” on the deficit. The truth is uncomfortable for the Government.
Caroline Badley, Labour’s campaign manager in Birmingham Edgbaston, looks at the challenges facing the party in 2011.
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.
