by Paul Goodman The fallout in the Labour Party from the Scottish and local election results continues. Yesterday, Ivan Lewis put the boot in. According to the Financial Times (£) – "Ed Miliband has been warned by one of his senior frontbenchers that Labour is still seen as the “party of the north” and is […]
by Paul Goodman If political parties assail their opponents, they're accused of wasting time and money. (Or of getting the attack wrong.) If they don't, they're charged with not having lacking the will to win, not going for the jugular, failing to fight back, and so on. Even so, Ivan Lewis's call yesterday for an […]
In 2017, 51 MPs were returned with majorities of less than a thousand. That’s 51 results potentially determined by an extra hour on the doorstep,