Douglas Alexander is standing again, after a period out of parliament. He's a former cabinet minister, under Gordon Brown. Imagine he may end up in Starmer's cabinet. (View Post)

The quality of new housing is often dreadful. It's because the market isn't functioning and the developers know they can sell anything no matter how bad. The only real answer, short of massively incr… (View Post)

The double-whammy of Partygate and the Truss mini-budget have made things near-irrecoverable for Rishi. The "friends" of BJ and LT have it in for Sunak because (a) he resigned from the cabi… (View Post)

There was a major breakdown in relations. The whole point of Callaghan was that he was close to the unions and would bring industrial peace. He was the one who torpedoed In Place of Strife, of course… (View Post)

I can remember that there was a sense that Labour were doing OK under Callaghan who seemed experienced and reassuring. The Winter of Discontent did for that, and for him. Nothing inevitable at all ab… (View Post)