Labour

John McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington.
John McDonnell interview: how Labour is moving to the left
By Hannah Meltzer - 03 March 12:19

The leader of the Labour left on why his job is to make issues "safe" for Ed Miliband and why the party will be "forced to look at more radical options".

David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street in London on 27 February, 2013.
Labour will listen and learn but Eastleigh was a disaster for David Cameron
By Toby Perkins - 02 March 12:48

It will terrify Cameron that even after making so many concessions to the right, the Tories were still beaten by UKIP.

Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander. Photograph: Getty Images.
Douglas Alexander's speech on Scotland: full text
By Douglas Alexander - 01 March 21:55

The shadow foreign secretary calls for a national convention - "Scotland 2025" - "to chart a new vision for an old nation".

Votes for the Eastleigh by-election begin to be counted.
Lib Dems predict victory in Eastleigh, with UKIP in second
By George Eaton - 01 March 2:16

Counting in the by-election continues as the Lib Dems say they have held the seat and predict that UKIP has beaten the Tories.

George Osborne leaves 11 Downing Street in London.
It’s hard to see how Balls and Osborne can both survive the next Budget. Who will fall?
By Rafael Behr - 27 February 16:38

If the Chancellor wriggles free again, Balls’s detractors inside Labour will be howling for blood.

Labour's new advert on "Tory Millionaire's Day"
Labour steps up its 50p tax attack with new "Tory Millionaire's Day" campaign
By George Eaton - 26 February 15:40

Ahead of the abolition of the 50p tax rate on 6 April, Labour looks again to paint the Tories as the party of the rich.

Protesters occupy the Fortnum and Mason department store.
Why doesn’t Labour face a UKIP of the left?
By Kevin Meagher - 26 February 12:17

The loyalty of the trade unions to Labour, the rebirth of street politics and, in Scotland and Wales, Plaid Cymru and the SNP help explain why the party faces no effective challenge from the left.

Ed Miliband and Ed Balls at the Labour conference in Manchester last year.
Labour needs an answer to Osborne's charge that it would "borrow more"
By George Eaton - 25 February 18:23

If the party wants to attack Osborne on this territory, it needs to explain why and how it would borrow for growth.

John Prescott presents his battered 1997 general election pledge card.
The end of pledge-card politics?
By Gavin Kelly - 22 February 11:05

No, but it’s struggling to catch up with the challenge of 2015.

Ed Miliband addresses workers at Islington Town Hall.
The public support a universal living wage - even if it costs jobs
By George Eaton - 22 February 10:49

Sixty per cent of workers agree that the minimum wage should be raised to the level of the living wage.

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