How the SNP might wreck Labour’s campaign outside Scotland
The prospect of losing most of their Scottish seats threatens to throw Miliband’s strategy into chaos.
Why should anyone listen to Sir Hugh Orde’s predictions of doom?
Each year for four years he’s predicted cuts will lead to a rise in crime. Each year crime has fallen.
Could the next British Government be sustained by anti-British MPs?
Ed Miliband declined to use his speech to the Scottish Labour conference this morning to rule out a deal with the SNP.
Bennett’s real problem isn’t “brain freeze”, it’s Caroline Lucas, the éminence verte
The Green leader can’t shake off the impression that she’s keeping the seat warm for her predecessor.
Labour’s problem with tuition fees
They know that higher education does not justify the costs of universal provision, but can’t or won’t admit it.
Don’t worry, Chuka, there is one Shadow Cabinet member who has set up a business…
The Shadow Business Secretary wouldn’t have been stumped on LBC if he read ConHome.
The vicious circle of Labour fundraising and policy-making
They are more reliant than ever on union funding – but the policies they have to adopt in return just make their fundraising efforts even harder.
38 Degrees gets 70,000 signatures for a petition based on yet another falsehood about Thatcher
If they’d bothered asking the Margaret Thatcher Centre, they’d have known it won’t take any taxpayers’ money.
Miliband is building a coalition to win, but not to govern
The insatiable left might prove just enough to put Miliband in Number 10, but when confronted with the realities of government it will eat him alive.
Looking at Labour 3) How local are the next generation of Labour MPs?
What proportion of them are local to their seat, and/or hold elected positions on a council?
Fresh doubt whether Labour’s plan to restore the 50p tax rate would raise any money
The 50p tax rate raised £1.3 billion less revenue than previously estimated.
Looking at Labour 2) The next generation of MPs
A Labour MP newly elected in 2015 is even more likely to be a political insider or a union candidate than a woman.
The leftward winds blowing Miliband off course
From fracking to Trident to Syriza, if you’re looking for evidence of a divided left today’s papers alone offer an embarrassment of riches.
A new data-led analysis of the Green threat to Labour
Rob Ford predicts that, although she can’t offer many direct challenges, Natalie Bennett can still make life difficult for Miliband.
Looking at Labour 1) The Shadow Cabinet
The average member of Miliband’s team has spent just four and a half years working in the private sector. A quarter have no private sector experience at all.