Labour has normally been the strongest anti-Tory challenger in Finchley & Golders Green - indeed the seat was Labour-held 1997 - 2010. The 2019 result there is likely to have been an aberration w… (View Post)
Most people have forgotten - or are totally unaware of - the fact that from Autumn 1977 until the Winter of Discontent at the beginning of 1979, Thatcher's Tory opposition led Labour by generally sma… (View Post)
FPT It is far too early to be confident about the next GE outcome here. As a statement of historical fact,however, Labour is better placed in the polls than at the same stage of the 1959 Parliament -… (View Post)
I believe that Blair seriously misread the public mood in 1997. By that time people were ready and wanting far more of the Thatcher agenda to be reversed than he was willing to offer. The subsequent … (View Post)