Ed Miliband isn’t Prime Ministerial and it could win him the election November 13, 2014 Billed as a battle speech, Ed Miliband’s address to an audience of party supporters and journalists yesterday was always going to be a big ask. Not because the Labour leader lacks conviction – he certainly had that yesterday – but because in the cold light of day Ed Miliband just isn’t a natural leader. Critics [...]
Is Ed Miliband holding the Labour Party back from winning the general election next year? November 9, 2014 Kate McCann is political reporter at City A.M, says Yes. Labour is in the midst of an odd sort of crisis. On the surface, the party is doing alright – it is generally ahead in the polls, despite a surprisingly united Tory party, and has a couple of vote-winning policies to its name. Yet below [...]
UK business confidence hit by general election and Eurozone worry November 3, 2014 Uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the general election, the threat of a skills shortage, and a weak Eurozone has hit UK business confidence – but it is still high by historic standards. A confidence index produced by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) fell to 28.6 for the fourth quarter of [...]
Alistair Darling to stand down as an MP at 2015 general election November 2, 2014 Labour veteran and former chancellor Alistair Darling is standing down as an MP at the next election. The Labour MP told the Financial Times he wanted to exit Westminster while he was still "relatively young". Furthermore, the former leader of the Better Together campaign threw his support for the Scottish Labour party leadership behind Jim [...]
Mark Carney on interest rate rises, Eurozone weakness and the 2015 general election October 13, 2014 Is Bank of England governor Mark Carney on a media blitz? He’s already taken the opportunity to tell bank chiefs to face up to new laws which make them legally responsible for any wrongdoing. And, while attending the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, he’s also given interviews to CNBC and CNN making clear that eurozone weakness and [...]
General election TV debate: Ukip’s Nigel Farage invited to face main Westminster party leaders October 13, 2014 Ukip has just received its latest batch of good news with leader Nigel Farage being invited to take part in next year's general election TV debates with the main Westminster party leaders. The broadcasters explained their decision saying it was the result of "changes in the political landscape". The BBC, Sky, ITV and Channel 4 [...]
Liberal Democrat party conference 2014: Lib Dems in “fight of our lives” ahead of general election says Clegg in opening spech October 5, 2014 Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has told his party it faces the the fight of its life ahead of the next general election. Speaking to party members at the Lib Dem party conference, Clegg said the party had once again been written off and were the underdogs in the lead up [...]
Ed Miliband promises minimum wage rise should Labour win next general election September 21, 2014 Ed Miliband has promised an increase in the national minimum wage to £8 per hour should his party win at the next general election. The Labour leader has said it is "not good enough" that one in five people in the UK "are in low pay". Ahead of the Labour party conference in Manchester this week, [...]
Polls show Conservative party could win 2015 general election September 15, 2014 Two new polls show that David Cameron’s Conservative party could do better than expected at the general election next year, despite the PM telling Scots yesterday that the current government won’t be around forever, A poll by Lord Ashcroft yesterday put the Tories neck-and-neck with Ed Miliband’s Labour, both on 33 per cent, [...]
Falling unemployment vs stagnant wages: Jobs market to dominate 2015 general election August 13, 2014 The battle lines for next year’s election were drawn yesterday as the Conservatives and Labour clashed over their differing views of the latest figures on the recovery. Britain’s tumbling rate of unemployment has given the government a boost ahead of the vote on 7 May next year – but Labour is stressing the stagnant level [...]