What Ed Miliband has to say about UKIP
Here’s the new film from the Liberal Democrats, taking a swipe at Labour Party leader Ed Miliband’s reluctance to confront Ukip. … Read the full post »
Ed Miliband
Read about the Labour Member of Parliament and leader of the Labour Party 2010-2015, Ed Miliband. He stood down as leader after losing the 2015 election.
For more about the former Labour leader, see the excellent Five Year Mission: The Labour Party under Ed Miliband.
Fear and paranoia grip Labour Party leader Ed Miliband’s team
Ed Miliband faces a crisis. The impossible task of leadership becomes even tougher for the player in difficulty. … Read the full post »
Shock news in my letter to The Guardian: I think people should vote Lib Dem
There is a simple solution available to the 19 thinktanks who have written to Ed Miliband with a policy wishlist. … Read the full post »
This is why Nick Clegg keeps on talking about the Lib Dems being a centre party
Sometimes it involves anchors. Sometimes it involves the ground. But consistently it’s about the centre – that’s Nick Clegg’s political positioning of choice. … Read the full post »
An excellent present for your political friends: Sign of the Times by Peter Brookes
Sign of the Times is a new collection of acerbic, witty and moving cartoons from The Times’s political cartoonist Peter Brookes. … Read the full post »
Journalists continue to ask the wrong question about hung Parliaments
With Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow, it is understandable that journalists are breaking out the hung Parliament speculation file. … Read the full post »
Ed Miliband has picked the wrong Australian opposition leader to imitate
Kim Beazley, Australian Ambassador to the US, had a pretty dire record of losing not only Labor Party leadership elections in Australia but also losing general elections. … Read the full post »
Labour-run Islington employs people on those very zero hour contracts Ed Miliband attacking
The Evening Standard reports a dose of hypocrisy from Labour over zero hour contracts: Labour-run councils are doing just what Ed Miliband attacks the Conservatives for. … Read the full post »
Now a London Labour activist wants their Euro-selections rerun
Ed Miliband today faced calls to rerun the London contest to select Labour candidates for European elections after it was branded a union “stitch-up”. … Read the full post »
“Looks panicky”: what top Labour Islington councillor thinks of Ed Miliband’s union reform plans
The controversies over UNITE’s influence in Labour selections started in Falkirk but, stoked by a leading Labour member in London attacking UNITE’s “autocratic monopoly”, naming selections in Haringey and Lewisham, the story has spread rather wider. Labour Islington Council Leader Catherine West, a UNITE member and personally congratulated by its leader on her selection, is one … Read the full post »