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Logic says he's bound to be the next PM - but there'll be no complacency from Ed 22 Jun 2013 | 01:00 pm
There are, broadly speaking, two schools of thought about what the Labour Party needs to do to win the next general election. One is that it has to do relatively little to get back into government ot...
Why the Coalition won't last the course 25 May 2013 | 01:00 pm
IF a week is a long time in politics, then two weeks is twice as long – and the fortnight since this column last appeared seems to have been a particularly lengthy one for Prime Minister David Cameron...
A plague on all their houses 4 May 2013 | 01:27 pm
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, a fringe party sent shockwaves through the political establishment after securing 15pc of the popular vote in the 1989 elections to the European Parliament. Alas fo...
Blair is back, and Miliband will have to deal with it 20 Apr 2013 | 12:30 pm
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Thatcher: There WAS an alternative 13 Apr 2013 | 12:51 pm
The first thing I need to say about Margaret Thatcher is that when it comes to the former Prime Minister, I can scarcely be regarded as a disinterested or objective observer. I spent most of my early...
David Miliband: A right decision, borne out of a wrong one 30 Mar 2013 | 02:00 pm
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Seldon is right: Balls should fall on his sword 23 Feb 2013 | 01:30 pm
At the end of last week’s column, on the back of an opinion poll showing the party 11 points clear of the Tories, I suggested that the next general election in 2015 was beginning to look like it might...
Was this the week Cameron lost his party? 9 Feb 2013 | 01:30 pm
Whatever else the past seven eventful days in politics will ultimately be remembered for, it’s certainly been a good, maybe even vintage week for political jokes. “I didn’t feel in the least bit sorr...
Council leaders should pay heed to Kinnock's warning 19 Jan 2013 | 05:04 pm
Earlier this week I tuned in to an interesting radio discussion about whether, in the era of instant communication via text messaging, email and Twitter, set-piece political speeches still retained a...
Taxi for Balls? My political predictions for 2013 29 Dec 2012 | 02:35 pm
Andy Murray will win Wimbledon, Roberto Mancini will be sacked as manager of Manchester City, David and Victoria Beckham will return to the UK, and the X-Factor will finally be canned after ten not al...
