Al Murray would make a better Prime Minister than Ed Miliband – Poll
The pub landlord Al Murray is preferred as Prime Minister to Labour leader Ed Miliband, according to a new poll from Hotwire
- 26 January 2015
Weird Ed isn't so weird - and why that doesn't even matter
Whilst they may not like it, the Tories may need to learn a thing or two about 'weird Ed'. No amount of harking on about the bacon sandwich incident can endear them to the voters that their policies have neglected and exploited for the last 4 years, says Kate Baldwin
- 20 December 2014
Why a Labour win in 2015 does not bother Tory UKIP defectors
In an exclusive article, one of UKIP's most senior figures claims a Labour victory in 2015 will be a chance for the Conservative party to ‘have a talk’ to itself, for they would have lost the election not because they did not placate enough in the ‘centre ground’ but because they lost their soul
- 19 December 2014
Jim Murphy elected as Scottish Labour leader
Former Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has been elected as the new leader of Scottish Labour
- 13 December 2014
Tories deserve credit for ending Labour's recession
Who's going to be best at raising living standards? Is it Labour, who crashed the car in 2008, or the Conservatives who in coalition have gradually got the vehicle back on the road and moving again?
- 24 April 2014
Even a fading Farage can deny Cameron victory
UKIP may have peaked but the Eurosceptic party is still likely to take enough Tory votes to catapult Ed Miliband into Downing Street
- 2 March 2014
The car smoking ban: A cure worse than the disease
The Left has always seen the independent family as a ‘bourgeois’ obstacle to total state control. That is what the car smoking ban is all about - political interference in private family life
- 4 February 2014
Time to leave: British Labour grandee informs countryfolk
It is increasingly likely that by 2015 Britain will have a left-wing government with an undiminished appetite for people-harming experiments that are imposed in an arbitrary way. The flooding of Somerset is just the beginning
- 3 February 2014
How the Tories can become the party of the under-25s
Far from being 'alien' to young voters, the Conservative party has the scope to become the natural party of the under-25s
- 29 January 2014
New research shows UK Anglicans still Conservative, Muslim vote is Labour's to lose
Ordinary Anglicans veer to the Right, regardless of the liberal-Left reputation of many Bishops, while Muslims veer strongly to the Left. This doesn't mean religion is decisive in UK politics, but it does mean politicians need to take heed
- 26 January 2014
Conservatives should listen to grassroots, but warily
Activists of any party (democratic or otherwise) can be the most committed, smartest and most helpful of allies. But among them there are also blinkered dogmatists and a fair smattering of narcissists who harm the cause they claim to support
- 14 January 2014
Labour conference McBride ordure show
Just when the comrades were about to mumble through ‘The Red Flag’, Damian McBeast dumps a whole load of ordure right over the party
- 23 September 2013
Ed Miliband the "vulture" opportunist. Or not? Three great thoughts from the Left
[Miliband] "is neither hunter nor prey, he is scavenger. He is a political vulture. Mission creep? His mission is all about creeping"
- 8 September 2013
The future is not bright if the future is purple
Purple has had a great innings and done some batting for UKIP but despite its advantages as both a halfway-house between Labour and the Conservatives it fails to confer the right message in terms of values, ideology and loyalty
- 10 August 2013
Labour councillor under fire after refusing to assist UKIP member resident
A Labour councillor is potentially in breach of his council's code of conduct after refusing to work with a resident he discovered is now a UKIP candidate
- 4 July 2013
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