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Peter Watt | 16 May 2012

The local elections showed voters tiring of party politics but not personalities

There were two big winners on 3 May. Not Ed Miliband and Boris Johnson but ‘disenchantment with party politics’ and ‘politics with a personality’. The results were clearly great for Labour,

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How should we reform public services?

Hopi Sen | 14 May, 2012

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My answer to the question ‘how should we reform public services?’ is … Please don’t try. At least, not yet. Do it a bit later. If the left has a fault, it is that we are not very good at waiting for the right moment. We will have one huge problem when we win the …

‘An event within an event’

Victoria Groulef | 14 May, 2012

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It is always a risk putting a plenary at the end of a jam-packed one-day conference. Despite the lure of high-profile panellists, Caroline Flint MP, Chuka Umunna MP, David Aaronovitch and Jacqui Smith, and witty chair Simon Fanshawe, there is always the temptation to call it a day and run for an earlier train. However, …

Averting an exodus

Jacqui Smith | 14 May, 2012

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In my family, where my mum, dad and sister are all teachers, we had a special family rule during my two stints as a schools minister. We didn’t discuss education at family get-togethers! Having been a teacher myself, I totally understand the traditional school staffroom temptation to grumble about the government. As Woody Allen once …

Flogging the proverbial dead horse

David Talbot | 14 May, 2012

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Amid the pomp and the catcalls from Dennis Skinner, last week’s Queen’s speech offered a defensive government a rare chance to gain political momentum. It is a statement on the coalition’s serial dysfunctionality that it proved unable to seize this opportunity. The sovereign’s offering was a decidedly unimpressive list of bills – on, for example, …

Labour and the unions

John Hannett | 12 May, 2012

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What should a modernised link look like? – Progress annual conference 12 May 2012 The ideals of working people forming trade unions so that they could collectively fight to improve their working and living conditions and of having a voice within the Labour party have remained unchanged through more than a century. However, the workplace …

London’s groundhog day election

Wes Streeting | 12 May, 2012

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To understand Ken Livingstone’s loss, we need to look back to his selection By Wes Streeting —There is no need for a protracted postmortem on the effectiveness of Labour’s London campaign: Labour won, Ken Livingstone lost. Whereas Boris Johnson’s personal popularity provided the Tories with their only boost on election day, Livingstone threw away Labour’s …

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