Certainly her response yesterday was pretty surefooted. The test of making an immediate off the cuff response to an expansionary budget as Shadow Chancellor is about the hardest one in politics. She … (View Post)

It's usually best to wait for a few days before deciding whether a budget has been successful in political terms. However, reality appears to be dawning more quickly than usual this morning. This tim… (View Post)

How salient will relations with the EU be as an issue by 2024? I suspect that the election could be similar to that in 2017, with the Conservatives talking about nothing else but Brexit, while Labour… (View Post)

The parallel between Corbyn and Ratner is interesting. Both did indeed shred the brand and I agree that recovery does take a long time. Bear in mind though that Ratner's former company can now be des… (View Post)

Not in that YouGov poll of 20th Jan 2012, when 18% felt that Miliband was doing well, and 71% that he was doing badly, and Labour was still 5% behind in the polls. By the end of the year Labour had a… (View Post)