Labour
Payday lenders: are they targeting gamblers?
Ed Miliband’s crackdown on payday lenders is long overdue. They’re already preying on vulnerable people.
By Simon Read | The Money Blog | Monday, 8 April 2013 at 12:04 pm
A Measure of Labour’s Problem
David Miliband’s resignation as an MP to run a charity in New York is a loss to the Labour Party. More than that, though, it tells us what a state Labour is in.
There has recently been speculation about the possibility of Alistair Darling replacing Ed Balls as shadow chancellor – a change on which Darling [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 26 March 2013 at 9:40 pm
Europe: Tories Wobble; Labour Don’t
Master strategist George Osborne’s latest cunning plan is to play Bad European to David Cameron’s Good European. The Prime Minister said in July that leaving the EU would be “bad for Britain” and “a complete denial of our national interests”. The Daily Telegraph paraphrased him thus: “Mr Cameron will not countenance leaving the EU and [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 12 January 2013 at 5:59 pm
Housing will be the next political battleground for 2015
The imagery and the towns change, but the theme of party conferences is always the same: we are the party looking out for YOU.
By Roger Harding | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 15 October 2012 at 4:00 am
The Labour Conference: Funnier than the Edinburgh Festival?
My name is Gráinne Maguire and I have a terrible secret; this year, the highlight of my social calendar, my Glastonbury, my 18-30s holiday is the Labour Party Conference in Manchester. As a stand-up comedian and a veteran of the Edinburgh festival, I want to see how the Labour Party conference compares with the annual comedy month of shame.
By Grainne Maguire | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 1 October 2012 at 10:48 am
Why single Tony Blair out for protest?
Tony Blair made a tentative return to politics last week as an advisor to the Labour Party. For a number of people on the left, including your humble servant, this did not sit particularly well. Many of us had hoped that under the stewardship of Ed Miliband the Labour Party would move beyond the privatisation and political cowardice of the “triangulation” years to a more confidently social democratic outlook
By James Bloodworth | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 11:24 am
Generation Y are suffering from the recession – don’t tell us we’re not
If some of the more hysterical right wing papers are to be believed there is only one type of young person; the angry, feckless yob that graces the front of the tabloids carrying various electronic goods looted from Argos.
By Caroline Mortimer | Notebook | Monday, 16 July 2012 at 4:00 am
Ed Miliband and Britain’s anti-immigrant backlash
The politics behind Ed Miliband’s long-awaited speech on immigration are pretty straightforward. Polling – and Labour activists’ experience on the doorstep – suggest that immigration remains a big concern for large numbers of working-class voters. Unless Labour engages with a conversation going on in ‘every kitchen’, as Ed Miliband puts it, the [...]
By Owen Jones | Eagle Eye, Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Friday, 22 June 2012 at 6:42 pm
Where all the Lib Dems have gone
At the weekend we splashed on how 26 per cent of Tory voters would “seriously consider” voting for UKIP, after 10 per cent have already made the switch. I went back to ComRes to find out where the other parties vote has gone. This is what the results show – and they make grim reading for Nick Clegg.
By Matt Chorley | Eagle Eye, iPolitics | Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 1:35 pm
Every mother with their own named midwife? Sounds like an empty promise
Andrew Lansley’s announcement that pregnant women being cared for under the NHS will be provided with a ‘named’ midwife, seems thoroughly unrealistic.
By Grace Jacobson | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 5:30 pm
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