“Ed Miliband says the right things when it comes to engagement of Labour party members in selection processes. ‘You’ve got to leave it to party members to make their decisions. And that’s the way it should be’ he said in
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Progress | A Labour case for the EU
“We need a Labour case for the EU, not a patriotic case for the EU – a response to Fighting for Britain’s future by Glenis Willmott With David Cameron’s long-awaited EU speech taking place later this month likely to promise
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Labour, Ed Miliband, Progress and promises
I was at the Progress Conference yesterday and heard the Ed Miliband speech that’s the centre piece of Andrew Rawnsley’s Observer column today. It was the best speech I’ve heard Ed give and he responded in the Q&A session with determination
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Writing elsewhere – web campaigning for Progress and EU politics for Left Foot Forward
This blog has been a little quiet recently, but it’s not because I’ve stopped writing. Post-election UK politics is more interesting than at any point for the last few years and I’ve been entering the debates by writing elsewhere –
Continue reading Progress | How leadership candidates should run their internet campaign
“Online campaigning may be crucial to the winner’s success, as suggested by Harriet Harman’s 2007 deputy leadership win, a disparate electorate and the myriad opportunities now afforded by social media Just last week I wrote a piece for Progress entitled
Continue reading Progress | Was 2010 the internet election?
“Was 2010 the internet election? It was the first, but the internet alone didn’t win the election, and politicians need to avoid the pitfall of broadcasting without listening Last week a couple of hundred people involved in internet politics met
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