02 Feb 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
The Labour Party is considering promoting its head of media to a newly created top comms role, in a...for if New Labour is dead?'
The party, she added, had also fallen into the habit of depending on 'low ...
between the party and the leader's office - a change for Labour.
The roles are currently kept separate ...
, director of comms Tom Baldwin.
However, a Labour press officer insisted that the recruitment process had ...
16 Apr 2012
| by Sara Luker
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has been accused of 'hypocrisy' in his plea to reduce the influence...in around three million union members automatically giving 3 a year to a the Labour Party.
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, to contribute more. Labour seems to be closer to the Kelly proposals than other parties, but all still have a ...
time when the traditional Labour Party/trade union links are at their lowest ebb.' Miliband ...
13 Jan 2012
Ken Livingstone, the Labour Party candidate for London Mayor, is promising a 'fare deal' for public
18 May 2012
crisis of confidence. Despite a strong showing from the Labour Party, turnout was depressingly low and so...As ever, the answer from the political elite is that we need to 'engage'
voters. In London, there have been calls to make Labour's selection
process to choose the next mayoral candidate an open primary ...
answers to the economic climate
coming from leading Labour councils in London and beyond. It is time ...
29 Mar 2012
| by George Eustice
The reform of party funding comes on to the agenda periodically, but always proves hard to deliver....stumbling block to reform has always been the reluctance of the Labour Party to give up the huge donations ...
Political parties are an under-appreciated component of a functional democracy. They galvanise support for change. Volunteers deliver millions of leaflets. Without a party system, no-one could get ...
12 Jan 2012
| by John Woodcock
by his Government. For Labour, getting a hearing for Miliband's speech on delivering fairness in tough ...
about Bob Holness ended up as The Sun splash. Miliband's message was simple: a future Labour government ...
on that is central to Labour's drive to regain the public's trust on the economy after the last general election ...
24 Feb 2012
| by John Owens
at restoring the Conservatives' image as the 'party of business', observers have said....said the pressure was on the Prime Minister from the rank and file of the party to reassert traditional Conservative links. Conservative backbenchers will have been saying this is the party of business, we don ...
bonus as chief executive of RBS after pressure from Labour leader Ed Miliband earlier this year ...
26 Apr 2012
| by John Woodcock
to regain a sense of direction.
John Woodcock is Labour MP for Barrow and Furness, and a former ...
26 Jan 2012
| by John Woodcock
Changing the emphasis of your political message - as Labour has done on the economy - requires a...chancellor similarly determined to get the message to the public that a future Labour government ...
message, we have to keep repeating it and be confident that it is right.
Labour s opponents are desperate to convince people that Labour cannot credibly argue against a flawed approach while looking ahead ...
15 Mar 2012
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
Labour, which resisted such calls while it was in power, has backed renewed demands by pressure groups for a watershed. The move follows research by Newcastle University, which suggests that previous ...
Abbott, Labour's public health spokeswoman, said: "Children should be protected from junk ...