ListenBritish politics is rather like one of those playground games of football where one match...Forsyth, James
If Labour wins the election, Sir Keir Starmer faces the biggest job of his life with very little preparation - like every other PM Incoming prime ministers may feel ready for the challenges Number 10 throws up, but, as Sir Keir Starmer could s...
Further process targets will be rolled out if Labour wins the forthcoming general election, health secretary Andy Burnham has promised. This marks a clear difference from the Conservatives, who have pledged to phase them out.Speaking at the health policy think tank the King鈥檚 Fund the day ...
Labour plans to expand Lords with new peers if it wins election - despite wanting to abolish it Labour said it is standing by its pledge to abolish the House of Lords in the first term - despite planning to swell its size with new peers in order to push throug...
results. Most of us are unwilling to do anything that might actually influence an election, so we vote in order to convince ourselves that we didn’tquiteleave it entirely to others to decide who wins. But by limiting your participation to your single vote, that’s exactly what you’r...
If Spain were a developing country, I would argue that given its debt level the peseta would fall at least 50-70% (and so its debt burden would triple), but because it has a credible legal structure (I am assuming no radical party wins the election before a euro exit), a decline of...
AHUNG parliament comes about when no single party has a majority of the 650 MPs in the House of Commons after the general election. But that simple statement barely does justice to the mass of calculations that could follow a deadlocked ballot. In simple arithmetic, a party needs 326 MPs...
Sir Keir Starmer has promised Dame Esther Rantzen that he will allow a vote on assisted dying in the next parliament if he wins the next election. The Labour leader made the pledge following recent interventions by the broadcaster, who recently revealedshe had joined the Dig...
These days, a candidate in a trade union election who gets labelled a Blairite might as well give up--his campaign is dead in the water. The so-called "awkward squad" of trade union general secretaries, which loathes new Labour and all its works, wins a recruit every time a general ...
Dissident Democrats opposed to sharing power with Mr Berlusconi are mobilising amid talk of forming a “new left”. Mr Letta is aware that further labour reforms, which Mr Monti left half-finished, would risk cementing the party’s schism. ...