As Blair warns Labour has rediscovered losing, are its 2020 election chances slipping away? July 22, 2015 Patrick Diamond, lecturer in public policy at Queen Mary, University of London, says Yes Labour is at grave risk of throwing the 2020 election away. To win in five years, it has to understand why it suffered a devastating defeat on 7 May. The reasons are obvious: the public did not believe that Ed Miliband [...]
Tony Blair warns the Labour Party of moving left after Jeremy Corbyn leads in poll July 22, 2015 Tony Blair’s opinions still count in the Labour Party, and he’s turned his gaze towards the future prospects of the party under the leadership Jeremy Corbyn, after he said Labour has “rediscovered losing.” His comments came after a YouGov poll for The Times found in the final round of voting, Corbyn would garner 53 per [...]
Labour must re-embrace the City of London for the benefit of all society July 21, 2015 AS HSBC mulls over whether to leave the UK, it’s time for Londoners to re-embrace the City of London. Indeed, if I was mayor, I would be campaigning for major banks to stay headquartered here, unlike the current mayor. The jobs they offer directly and indirectly matter, but the damage to London’s reputation if they [...]
After concerns that it is veering left, is Labour in danger of making itself utterly unelectable? July 20, 2015 Ben Page, chief executive of Ipsos MORI, says Yes The US writer David Frum wrote: “when a political party offers voters ham and eggs and the voters say, ‘no, thanks’, its first instinct is to say, ‘OK then, how about double ham and double eggs?’” It is early days, but Labour has just suffered an [...]
Labour leadership race: Liz Kendall now least likely to become next Labour leader July 15, 2015 As the Labour leadership race hots up, Liz Kendall has become the least likely to win and lead her party, as Jeremy Corbyn overtakes her. The most pro-business of the four contenders left, Kendall has tried to separate herself from the rest of the pack by presenting herself as a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately [...]
Labour leadership race: Jeremy Corbyn wins Unite backing, Andy Burnham second favourite of Britain’s biggest union July 5, 2015 Jeremy Corbyn has won the backing of Britain's biggest union in the contest to become the next leader of the Labour party. Unite's executive committee has voted to support the left-wing candidate who is seeking to replace Ed Miliband. The union, which lent support to Miliband in the last leadership race, also voted for Andy [...]
Labour leadership race: Candidates heckled in second hustings event June 20, 2015 The candidates in the race to become Labour leader have clashed in a debate over the direction the party should take in the future. Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper were all heckled by the audience – comprised of potential Labour voters – as they talked about Trident and welfare. They were all greeted [...]
Labour leadership race: Poll shows Burnham is slight favourite as 6 pc of party supporters back fake candidate June 18, 2015 Andy Burnham is the slight favourite to become the next leader of the Labour party, as he is preferred by 15 per cent of people. An Ipsos Mori poll shows that 14 per cent of British adults support Yvette Cooper as the next Labour leader – just one percentage point behind Burnham. A fake candidate [...]
Labour leadership race: Candidates clash over business as Kendall urges party to back “wealth creation” June 18, 2015 The four candidates in the race to succeed Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour party have clashed over the party's relationship with business in the first televised debate. Andy Burnham, the favourite in the race, said that Labour had to be the party that helped "everyone get on in life". Asked if a budget [...]
Labour deputy leadership race: Tom Watson favourite in a crowded pack June 17, 2015 Five candidates are vying for the role of deputy Labour leader in a crowded race alongside the high-profile leadership battle. Several well-known faces in the party have positioned themselves as candidates to succeed Harriet Harman as the party's deputy leader. Ladbrokes currently has Tom Watson as favourite to become Labour's deputy leader, with odds of 4/5. [...]