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Vote 2012: An introduction to the various elections on May 3rd
. In the run-up to the various May 2012 elections, Left Foot Forward has teamed up with Britain-Votes.co.uk to present a series of primers on the votes; Tom Harris, editor of Britain Votes, has...
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Miliband plays it down the middle at Labour’s not-so-local election launch
. Ed Miliband, alongside the Shadow Cabinet, launched Labour’s nationwide local election campaign in Birmingham today; Gurjinder Dhaliwal reports on his speech and the question and answer session...
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Vote 2012: Welsh local council elections preview
. In the second of our series of articles looking ahead to the May 2012 elections, Tom Harris, editor of Britain-Votes.co.uk, and Harry Hayfield preview the Welsh local council elections The whole...
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Vote 2012: Safe in their hands? The six broken Tory NHS promises
. Lord Robert Winston is not a dreamer – he is a doer. He is also a man who knows a thing or two about human behaviour as well as the NHS. In the first Labour Party broadcast for the forthcoming...
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Vote 2012: If Labour don’t win in Glasgow, where will they win on May 3rd?
. Glasgow Labour Party this week launched its 100-point manifesto (pdf) amidst what will be the fiercest fight outside London on May 3rd. Key pledges include: • The provision of free public Wi-Fi...
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Miliband: Cameron and Osborne ‘have helped bankers, millionaires and Murdoch’
. Ed Miliband will today once again seek to portray the Tories as the party of the few, going out of their way to help bankers, millionaires and Rupert Murdoch but doing sweet FA for the un-rich;...
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Poll: Welsh Labour “on course to make sweeping gains”
. In 2008, Welsh Labour suffered a disastrous performance in the local elections. In the Wake of the 10p tax debacle the party took a massive blow with the loss of 122 council seats, losing control...
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Vote 2012: The Expectation Game
. Polls have just closed in the various elections and referendums across Britain; Britain Votes’s Tom Harris marks your card for the night and day ahead If tonight is going to be your first...
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How the Tories became an endangered species in the North of England
. Lewis Goodall is a researcher at IPPR North, IPPR’s dedicated think tank for the North of England Councillor Ron Round may well have earned the title of Generalissimo of English local government:...
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Leave the Tories to worry about UKIP. Let them do a 2005 all over again
There is a myth, propagated by much of the commentariat, which says that the public are far to the right of the major parties on three issues – immigration, welfare and the European Union. It is a myth...
View ArticleThree key messages from Natalie Bennett’s speech to the Green Party Conference
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett opened the party’s spring conference in Harrogate this afternoon. Here are the three key messages of her Leader’s Speech. 1. The Greens are gearing up to make the...
View ArticleLabour continues to dominate in Welsh polls
Labour remains in a dominant positions in Wales ahead of May’s local elections according to new research. According to the Pre-Election Wave of the 2016 Welsh Election Study – a major study of this...
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Building a greener and cleaner London
If you want to make an impact at City Hall then you need a desire to change things for the better and an open mind about who you will work with to do that. When I look at the long list of things the...
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Scottish Labour is less popular than its policies – good news for the SNP
Labour’s brand north of the border is now toxic, if new polling is to be believed. According to data produced by BMG Research for the Herald newspaper, 51 per cent of those Scots polled supported...
View ArticleNine out of ten people can’t name their Police and Crime Commissioner
Image: West Midlands Police In 2012, English and Welsh voters selected their own Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) for the first time. Just 15.1 per cent those eligible cast their vote — the lowest...
View ArticleLabour faces a tough week in Scotland, Wales and England. Here’s why.
Cast your minds back to the local council elections of 1990. It was the last electoral test of the Thatcher government which saw the Conservatives lose 222 councillors and their share of the vote...
View ArticlePMQs: Corbyn asks about inequality, Cameron replies about Hamas
David Cameron took the last Prime Minister’s Questions before tomorrow’s local elections as an opportunity to take what election strategist Lynton Crosby calls the ‘dead cat on the table’ and to beat...
View ArticleWhoever wins, councils will still be slammed by Tory cuts
Residents of 125 English council areas are electing new representatives today, in what’s expected to be a good election for the Tories and a bad one for Labour. But whoever ends up controlling...
View ArticleLabour’s ‘baying hounds’ need to back off, says UNISON chief
Dave Prentis, head of one of the countries largest trade unions, has called on Labour to end it’s internal bickering, following a tough night for the party. Writing for the UNISON blog, Prentis...
View ArticleWhat can history tell us about the impact of local elections on general...
Throughout the day political analysis will focus on what the local election result say or mean ahead of the General Election on 8th June. Left Foot Forward goes back in time to establish what happened...
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