4 lessons from the London Mayoral and Assembly elections for Labour’s general election prospects
These are the issues that need to be reckoned with
Labour
Will tactical voting destroy the Tories?
Under our winner-takes-all system, in tight seats, voters could well hold their noses and cast their ballot for a candidate with the best chance of winning, just to deliver a knock-out blow for the Tories.
Bathers warned away from 25 beaches polluted by sewage in Wales
“You weren’t expecting to go swimming this bank holiday weekend, anyway, were you?”
Why Labour made the right call on downgrading the £28bn climate investment figure
Labour’s climate and environment plans are still vastly more coherent and ambitious than those of the Tories.
Reform UK: Existential threat to the Tories or here today, gone tomorrow?
Emboldened by two byelections successes, Reform UK seeks to capitalise on voter disenchantment with the ruling party. But how much of a threat are they to the Tories?
Damning poll shows what the public really think of Rishi Sunak and the Tories
The poll asked what people think the Tories stand for
What is behind Labour’s rightward drift?
At the heart of the story is ‘Labour Together,’ a think-tank which maintains a low profile in Westminster but is believed to be quietly guiding Starmer’s path to power.
Who do voters trust on the economy?
The economy is the second most important issue for Britons today
Labour to back bankers’ bonuses: How the Left responded
Rachel Reeves has said she has ‘no intention’ of re-establishing the cap.
Could the Tories still win?
Could 2024 become remembered for the British people ‘hurling the findings of the opinion polls back into the faces of the pollsters,’ as Times’ journalist George Clarke wrote following the Tories’ shock win in 1970?