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Labour has become the first of the three bigger parties to publish an election manifesto. And while the document reiterates familiar themes, it also presents something of a departure. The emphasis is very…
Above and beyond a defence of membership, the manifesto makes little in the way of pledges about EU policy.
One of Scottish Labour’s problems is that its most talented politicians prefer to be in Westminster rather than Holyrood. The reverse is true for the Scottish Nationalists. However, there are exceptions…
Labour claims that 590 fewer GP practices are now open in the evenings and on weekends. Are they right?
Whichever party finds itself in the ideological middle could hold all the cards in the 2015 election.
It nearly didn’t happen, but for the first time ever, the British public has heard from seven party leaders in one TV debate. And for the first time ever, Natalie Bennett, Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon…
Labour’s latest election broadcast is a direct-to-audience address by the actor Martin Freeman, who you might know from The Hobbit, Sherlock and The Office. It’s a curious affair – as Freeman stands alone…
Head to Scotland, be nice to Cameron and don’t mention Farage.
Labour claims that the bedroom tax has hit over half a million people, two-thirds of them disabled. Has it?
Given that his personal ratings have been so low, and behind those of the Labour party in general, the only way was up for Ed Miliband in his first major TV appearance of the election campaign. The Conservatives…
Alex Salmond might not be the leader of the Scottish National Party anymore, but that hasn’t stopped him from speaking out very loudly about his party’s potential role as kingmaker in the 2015 election…
The stage seemed set for a Conservative surge, but Britain’s changing policy mood got in the way.
The political to-and-fro after George Osborne’s budget failed to ignite political imaginations. Maybe because all parties are struggling to rationalise the hole government coffers.
The debate shambles has reached its climax and guess who drew the short straw.
Labour appears to have more informal support options than the Conservatives.
The news today that Ed Milband has ruled out forming a coalition with the SNP may come too late to limit the impact of the latest Tory attempt to illustrate that the Labour leader is a political lightweight…
The contest for 28 marginal seats could give a strong indication of the overall result in May.
Decades of patronage politics have left Bradford’s Labour party terminally complacent.
The former foreign secretary may have over-egged the pudding when talking up his influence on EU policy.
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