Jones: Cleggeron coalition “demonising” public sector workers
Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones has warned public sector workers across Wales to expect challenging times ahead from the savage attacks from the UK coalition.
Labour
If psephology is destiny, Cameron will be forced further to the right
David Cameron may have to spend the next three years courting voters to his right, increasingly distant from mainstream Britain.
Vote 2012: A Lab-SNP draw in Scotland, and a “frontlash” towards Labour in Wales
Ed Jacobs looks at the press reaction to Thursday’s local elections in Scotland and Wales.
Vote 2012: Midlands battlefield opens up for Labour
The key Midlands battleground for the general election saw some encouraging results for Labour in the local elections last night.
Poll: Welsh Labour “on course to make sweeping gains”
A new poll has revealed Welsh Labour is “on course to make sweeping gains” in Thursday’s local elections.
Vote 2012: London
If Ken Livingstone loses the mayoral election, the result will obscure likely gains in the London Assembly and the true scale of Labour support in the capital.
Osborne’s ‘granny tax’: Robbing pensioners to pay the one per cent
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves explains just how regressive George Osborne’s ‘granny tax’ is.
Vote 2012: A tale of two Labour parties
As local election campaigns begin, the Scottish and Welsh Labour parties take radically different approaches to confronting the threat from nationalism.
What does ‘The Fixer’ tell us about Labour’s approach to the economy?
Tess Lanning, research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, looks at what The Fixer Alex Polizzi can tell us of Labour’s approach to the economy.
Non-academies do just as well as academies
Official figures show non-academies do just as well as academies, explains Henry Stewart, a founder member of the Local schools Network.