The challenge is enormous, and almost certainly insurmountable. The latest opinion polls [Oct 2016] place the Conservative Party 15-16% ahead of Labour, with Labour floundering at below... Читать далее
What is clearly true is the traditional party landscape as it was in the 1950s and 60s has completely broken down. We are no longer a two party system, which were 90 percent of the... Читать далее
I genuinely think he probably was. I think he was – and remains – ideologically closer to the Left of the Conservative Party than he was to Old Labour. Like many on the Left of the Conserv... Читать далее
Great Prime Ministers are winners. Attlee won Labour its first-ever majority with the landslide in 1945 and his government delivered an enormously transformative manifesto, practically in... Читать далее
Things began going wrong in 2008. The financial crisis upended Labour in terms of its relationship with the British electorate. They had been telling people that we could sell ourselves... Читать далее
The issue of Iraq hangs heavily over Blair. But you have to see his complete electoral and policy record both in context and as part of wider political history. Blair was simply an... Читать далее
It is really too hard to say as things stand, and there are persuasive arguments on both sides. Right now, I would say the odds are genuinely 50:50.
In favour of a split, it can be argued... Читать далее
It depends what is meant by the Corbyn/Momentum project and what its aims are. If it is defined as an electoral project, aiming to win a majority in the House of Commons and form a... Читать далее
It’s arguable that a dearth of talent is not a new thing. Even if you look at the first New Labour cabinet in 1997, what would have happened if Tony Blair had fallen under a bus? Gordon... Читать далее
Corbynomics reflects a conviction that the austerity policies of the last six years have largely been a political choice, rather than an economic necessity; that Conservatives have... Читать далее