Tag Archives: Labour party

Hain has dig at shadow cabinet

By Ed Jacobs | Published: May 8, 2013

One of Ed Miliband’s closest supporters has called on the Labour Party to up its game with a less than coded attack on members of the shadow cabinet who are failing to pull their wait.

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Five reasons progressives should support Ed’s mansion tax

By James Bloodworth | Published: February 14, 2013

Left Foot Forward sets out five reasons progressives should support Ed Miliband’s proposed ‘mansion tax’.

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Gloucester Slutwalk: women are never to blame for sexual violence

By Guest | Published: February 12, 2013

A slutwalk led by the leader of the local Labour group is taking place in Gloucester this Thursday after comments urging women to reduce their risk of being raped by wearing more clothes.

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Lab 2012: Predistribution: A primer

By Richard Bassford | Published: September 29, 2012

A look at the rise of a crucial part of Ed Miliband’s vision for the future of the Labour party – predistribution – and how it may spell the end of New Labour.

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It’s our culture, stupid

By Guest | Published: June 28, 2012

A new Fabian pamphlet, published yesterday, calls on Labour to reach out to an increasingly socially conservative electorate with visions of a fairer society.

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Labour need to recover in the South for political principle, not just electoral advantage

By Guest | Published: June 20, 2012

The Conservative Party refused to listen to voters and were rewarded with the worst sequence of election defeats since 1832. Labour must not repeat the error.

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Tory press office twits should go back to spin school

By Shamik Das | Published: September 28, 2011

The Tory press office took to Twitter last night to try to denigrate Ed Miliband’s conference speech, telling a few porkies on the way, reports Shamik Das.

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Blue Labour exclusive: David, Ed, Glasman and community organising

By Guest | Published: September 25, 2011

Left Foot Forward presents exclusive extracts from Rowenna Davis’s new book, “Tangled Up In Blue”, looking at David and Ed Miliband’s thoughts on community organising.

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Leading Labour: Evaluating Ed Miliband’s first year

By Guest | Published: September 24, 2011

Marc Stears is a Visiting Fellow at IPPR and Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford Ed Miliband had a stark message for Labour earlier this year: “Old Labour forgot about the public. New Labour forgot about the party. And, by the time we left office, we had lost touch with both.” Ed [...]

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Glasman: Businesses want Labour and the unions to be “partners in growth”

By Shamik Das | Published: September 7, 2011

Maurice Glasman says businesses “do not think the coalition government is serious about growth”; they think Labour and the unions should be “partners in growth”.

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