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Former Labour Cabinet minister Peter Hain has urged Ed Miliband to begin fostering links with the Lib Dems in the run-up to the 2015 general election. In an interview with the Independent, Mr Hain suggests an "anti-Tory alliance" may be necessary, as it would be "difficult for us to win a majority straight after a heavy def...
David Davis said too many Conservative figures were under-rating Ed Miliband’s leadership credentials. “My instinct is, he's going to be cleverer than we think an...
John Mann MP’s constituency of Bassetlaw in many ways fits the demographic of somewhere we might expect to see UKIP make progress: a part of the East Midlands o...
The Road Back to Full Employment – Speech by Liam Byrne Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, in a speech to IPPR North, said: There are fe...
Diane Abbott insisted Labour and Ed Miliband did not need to worry about their poor performance in the polls. “We forget history; I don’t think Cameron was cuttin...
David Sainsbury said that he stopped his donations to the Labour party as being seen as an overtly political figure made his current roles “very difficult”. “That...
16/05/2013 on Question Time Extra Time, BBC Radio 5live
08/05/2013 on Labour