Deborah Mattinson – Labour’s new strategist. What we know of her views on the Red Wall.

Last year, ConservativeHome was delighted to have her on our panel about the Red Wall and social care. Here’s some of what she said.

Labour’s Tory sleaze accusations look hypocritical, and – even more interestingly – aren’t landing any blows

The party has its own history of politicians with close links to business.

Nathen Allen: Starmer’s efforts to make Labour seem patriotic aren’t fooling anyone

For the lost Labour seats of the Red Wall, Labour is simply still the party of Britain-bashing and university Marxists.

A year of Starmer. Why are his ratings going downhill? Lack of authenticity, inconsistency and missed opportunities.

Strangely, one of the few things that now unites voters across the Left and Right is a feeling he won’t win an election.

A looming battle between the Government and the health unions? Welcome back, old normal.

It makes sense to focus on a private-sector recovery, but a low pay offer to NHS workers sits badly alongside a record deal for teachers last year.

Whatever the flaws in the Government’s approach to the Lords, it has at least not sent Bercow there

The disruption to Parliament from Covid-19 has obscured and delayed the important work of undoing the damage wrought by his Speakership.

Starmer’s new chapter speech is short on content

This was a rushed response to unflattering newspaper articles written about Labour’s leader earlier in the month. It won’t do the trick.

As the SNP chief executive faces the threat of a perjury investigation, the Salmond fiasco goes from bad to worse

Meanwhile the Nationalists’ civil war deepens again as witnesses clash over whether the former First Minister was ‘physically aggressive’.

Starmer’s “paint-by-numbers” politics does not a Prime Minister make

His fixation on trying to outmanoeuvre his opponents makes it less clear what he stands for.

Cherry’s dismissal shows that the SNP leadership is under more pressure than ever

Sturgeon’s position in the party remains dominant, but she needs to assert that dominance in a way she didn’t before.

Labour’s vaccine know-it-alls risk derailing a sensible system

Starmer, Reeves and Blair have decided they know better, as to how the vaccine should be rolled out.

Even by Welsh Labour’s standards, Drakeford’s decision to slow the vaccine rollout is abysmal

Both the Conservatives and Plaid have gone on the attack, but can anything break Labour’s iron grip on Cardiff Bay this year?

Why Conservatives should cautiously welcome fresh leadership for Scottish Labour

The party needs to reach parts of the pro-UK electorate that the Tories cannot. Under Leonard, it has signally failed to do so.

Labour are divided over an EU deal, but no-deal Brexit would pose its own problem for Starmer

He risks appearing either to endorse whatever EU demands ended up making Johnson walk away, or being left with no good reason to oppose his doing so.

More fence-sitting from Starmer as Labour MPs challenge deportation flight

As nearly 70 of the party’s MPs successfully campaigned to remove 30 criminals from a flight, their leader has gone quiet. Again.