The Economist3d
Are British voters as clueless as Labour’s intelligentsia thinks?
The idea that voters no longer reward material improvements has taken root among the academics, advisers and think-tankers ...
John Prescott: The Labour firebrand who became Tony Blair’s vital sidekick
The charismatic deputy prime minister, who has died at the age of 86, was known best for punching a member of the electorate ...
Scottish Labour to reinstate winter fuel payments – and English taxpayers will pay for it
Scottish pensioners are set to have winter fuel payments reinstated after Labour split over one of Sir Keir Starmer’s ...
Yahoo11d
Labour are fuelling devolution
Political reversals have rarely been more remarkable than that of the Labour Party in Scotland ... This is bound to encourage backbench English and Welsh Labour MPs to increase pressure on ...
Major rule change proposed to English football that would force two Premier League teams to find new owners
TWO Premier League clubs could be forced to find new owners if a proposed major rule change comes into effect. Labour ...
spectator.com.au3d
Why Scots are less angry than the English
The Scots have long been stereotyped as dour, miserable whingers, and we finally have proof that this is pure slander. Ailsa ...
PA Media on MSN1d
Three main parties in tight race, according to Irish General Election exit poll
Elsewhere, the exit poll showed: Social Democrats (5.8%), Labour (5%), Greens (4%), Aontu (3.6%), People Before ...
The Independent9d
How the ‘Prescott Punch’ came to define him as Labour’s firebrand – and a total necessity for Blair
He came to realise that Prescott, symbolically and substantively, represented much of the old Labour Party he had to carry ... his proposals for devolution to English regions, and by 2004 a ...
Left Foot Forward4d
Labour must reform local government – but it’s important to get those reforms right
Splitting responsibility between district and county councils creates inefficiency, duplication, and confusion ...
Politico Europe12d
‘Never again’: Britain’s furious farmers turn on Labour
LONDON — For four generations, Judith Jacobs’ family has defied British farming convention by voting Labour — a party that has traditionally struggled ... a quintessentially English brand. She is one ...