Labour leadership race odds: Yvette Cooper keeps on gaining ground as bookies continue to shorten odds September 7, 2015 With just one week to go until the Labour leadership election result is announced, bookmakers continue to shorten odds on Yvette Cooper winning. In the latest move by bookmakers, Cooper has been cut to 4/1 with Bet365, the same odds offered by Betfair, William Hill and Paddy Power. Read more: Can geography help us find [...]
Labour leadership race odds: Yvette Cooper gains ground with bookmakers while Jeremy Corbyn remains out in front September 4, 2015 Labour leadership hopeful Yvette Cooper has gained ground in the contest, after she overtook Andy Burnham as second favourite with one bookmaker and closed the gap with a number of others. Ladbrokes shortened its odds on Cooper to become the next leader, from 10/1 to 5/1, in second place to frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn at 2/7, [...]
Labour should have done more to cut the deficit, Burnham says September 2, 2015 Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham has admitted that Labour “should have done more to tackle [the] deficit in the middle of the last decade, so that we were better prepared when the crisis hit.” Writing in City A.M. today Burnham says: “Small though it was, we were still running a deficit at the peak [...]
Labour must be a credible government-in-waiting to win over City A.M. readers September 2, 2015 The first speech I gave in the Labour leadership contest was on the economy and business. I acknowledged that, despite many pro-growth policies, too many businesses, their owners and employees looked at the Labour Party in recent years and did not see a party that understood their challenges or was on their side. This [...]
Labour leadership race: Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna urges unity after election, with 10 days to go until result September 2, 2015 No matter what the result of the Labour leadership race is, the party must show unity after the result of the vote, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has said. In a speech to think tank Policy Network, Umunna said: “I do not think we can simply dismiss out of hand those who hold critical views [...]
Folly of the Corbynistas: There’s nothing mainstream about Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn’s economic plans September 1, 2015 A group of economists recently hit the headlines with their claim that Jeremy Corbyn’s policies are supported by mainstream economics. Perhaps the best known of them is David Blanchflower, a Monetary Policy Committee member when Gordon Brown was chancellor. He predicted before the 2010 General Election that, under the Conservatives, unemployment would rise [...]
Labour leadership race: What can the degree of regional support for the Labour party tell us about the leadership election? August 28, 2015 The Labour leadership election becomes more controversial by the day. Despite Jeremy Corbyn dismissing claims of infiltration as “nonsense”, the party has accepted it could ban up to 100,000 people from the final vote. Read more: As Labour purges leadership election voters, will its next leader struggle for legitimacy? Is that true? Has the party been [...]
Labour leadership race: Jeremy Corbyn’s tweets ahead in the social media stakes – but not enough to win outright August 28, 2015 Surprise Labour leadership frontrunner, Jeremy Corbyn has taken Twitter by storm. Of all four candidates, he dominates: As a ratio, he has 38 per cent of candidates' Twitter following, up 18 per cent in the last two weeks alone and leading his closest competitor, Andy Burnham, who takes 27 per cent. Read more: Can geography help [...]
Labour leadership race: Acting leader Harriet Harman admits up to 100,000 members could be purged from vote August 28, 2015 The Labour purge is expected to reach a six-figure total, the party admitted today. Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said as many as 100,000 people could be blocked from the party's leadership vote. So far the party has removed around 3,000 infiltrators, but the former home secretary said Labour believed that one in five registered [...]
Jeremy Corbyn to consider women-only train carriages: Here’s how Twitter reacted… August 28, 2015 Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn has said he would consider women-only carriages on trains in order to counter a rise in assaults on public transport. Yvette Cooper, his rival, hit back that the idea would be "turning the clock back, not tackling the problem". Meanwhile, Conservative women's minister Nicky Morgan said she was "uncomfortable" with [...]