So UKIP are ahead of the Liberal Democrats in the latest YouGov poll. It was only a matter of time. UKIP of course will claim this as their breakthrough moment. Others will say it’s only a blip. UKIP will in all probability fade but something deeper is occurring in British politics and it may give Ed Miliband and Labour a chance of a majority in 2015. This parliament has turned politically around two key events. The formation of the Coalition [...]
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Lucy Powell selected as Manchester Central candidate
Tonight Manchester Central CLP selected their candidate for the November by-election. Around 200 members (just short of fifty percent) are believed to have attended the vote, with Ed Miliband’s Deputy Chief of Staff Lucy Powell selected. Congratulations...
Manchester Central candidates in their own words
Tonight Manchester Central party members will be meeting to quiz the four shortlisted candidates for the upcoming by-election, before selecting the Labour candidate for the November poll. We’ve already profiled the candidates, but here’s the...
Boris retains poll lead – but 78% believe he is Mayor for the rich
The latest YouGov poll on the London Mayoral race has Ken Livingstone trailing Boris Johnson by six percent – 53/47 – (five percent on first preferences), but a remarkable 78% of voters believe that Johnson is a “mayor for the rich” –...
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- Labour Peer suspended over Obama “bounty” allegations (which he denies)
- Miliband backs £5k donation cap
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A View from Behind the Front Line
As numerous column inches are currently given to the ongoing electoral battle in London and other key councils across the country, there are also thousands of Labour activists busy campaigning in constituencies (like my own of Harrogate & Knaresborough)...
Meeting Tweeting
It’s a packed-out hall on a spring evening. Almost two hundred Labour members have gathered to hear the potential candidates for a safe Labour seat set put their case for selection. The members rustle folded leaflets the candidates have given them,...
Southern Comfort – Crawley and Reigate
Back in the south-east and Crawley is my first stop to launch Labour’s Local Election campaign. I have visited Crawley a number of times over the years when Laura Moffett was MP. Laura has gone back to nursing still sporting I presume the tattoo on...
- Why Labour should stick with the “opt-out” for union members
- What price loyalty?
- Scottish Labour needs a strategy as sophisticated as Scots themselves
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What Lord Ahmed actually said
Earlier this week Lord Ahmed was suspended from the Labour Party over claims that he had offered a “bounty” for the capture of Barack Obama and George Bush – but a video has emerged of...
Party donations “should be slashed”, says Miliband
If you didn’t see it yesterday, here’s a clip of Ed Miliband’s Marr interview on party funding:
Lembit Opik goes wrestling
(h/t: ConHome)
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