Archive: Labour

David Miliband 'making a difference'

David Miliband is taking time away from frontbench politics

Ed Miliband's older brother David is not wasting time on the backbenches, he has insisted in a newspaper article.

David Miliband calls on Labour to reject 'big state'

Labour conference: David Miliband leaving country

Comment: Ed Miliband is destroying Labour

Video: Lessons from the Death Zone

Lessons from the Death Zone: Gould on life, death and love.

Watch Labour peer and strategist Philip Gould's final thoughts while suffering from oesophageal cancer, in a deeply moving tribute to human ambition.

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Miliband launches local election campaign after Galloway drubbing

Once more unto the breach - Labour ready to campaign for more local election gains

Ed Miliband has launched his party's local elections campaign with a plea to voters that "Labour is changing".

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Bruised Miliband looks to bigger picture

The Conservatives will be out of power after 2015, Ed Miliband has predicted for the first time.

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PMQs sketch: The day Labour MPs got their mojo back

Ed Miliband continued his NHS rolling maul

A primeval roar of hope from the opposition benches: this was the first time Labour MPs voiced a real appetite for 2015.

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Labour steps up fight as 'party of defence'

Labour steps up fight as the party of defence

Labour is launching its 'shadow defence review' in a fresh attempt to draw attention to the government's defence cuts.

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Yvette Cooper: Women forced back into the kitchen

Labour’s shadow minister for women and equalities said in response to yesterday's labour market statistics:

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IPPR: Women suffering most of all

Graeme Cooke, IPPR associate director, said in response to the unemployment figures:

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David Miliband calls on Labour to reject 'big state'

Two choices for Labour's future - David Miliband

Labour must shun its ideological heritage of reliance on the 'big state', David Miliband has urged, in his first major intervention about the state of the party now led by his younger brother.

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Harman: We are fighting spending cuts

Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman defends Ed Miliband on the Today programme after Unite general secretary Len McCluskey turned on the opposition frontbench's approach to spending cuts:

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Miliband: McCluskey is wrong

Labour leader Ed Miliband dismisses the criticisms of Unite general secretary Len McCluskey over his approach to party reforms and spending cuts:

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McCluskey: Unions will fight the Labour frontbench on cuts

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey launches a major attack on Ed Miliband's Labour leadership in an article for the Guardian newspaper:

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Comment: Balls is distancing Labour from the public sector, not the unions

Stephen Barber: 'Labour's core strategy appears to have been abandoned'

Balls and Miliband have binned a strategic position on public spending that didn't add up, but what do they do now?

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Miliband's big comeback

Ready for the fightback: Miliband seeks to consolidate leadership.

Ed Miliband made a keynote speech designed to resurrect trust in his leadership today, telling the prime minister to "bring it on".

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Probation 2012: Labour figures call time on Miliband

Miliband at a press conference at Labour HQ, during a previous initiative.

Patience with Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour party appears to be fraying at the edges as he prepares for the start of the political year.

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Comment: Some new year's advice for Ed Miliband

Richard Heller: 'The future is vacant political territory.'

First things first: Don't complain about media bias – even if you're right.

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'Counsel of despair': Miliband offers gloomy new year's message

Miliband: "I believe this country needs profound change, not small change."

Ed Miliband has called for "profound change" in Britain to stop the slide into "despair", in a decidedly gloomy new year's message.

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Comment: Miliband must up his game in 2012

Matthew Ashton: 'Labour has always lacked the Conservatives' killer instinct when it comes to removing ineffective leaders'

How long can Miliband snatch defeat from the jaw of victory before the party turns against him?

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Cameron's EU veto wipes out Labour poll lead

Cameron's move has boosted his poll ratings

David Cameron's decision to veto a European rescue plan has significantly boosted his poll ratings, with the majority of the public backing him.

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Labour on track for by-election victory

Labour looks like it will cruise to victory

Labour is set for a convincing election win in the Feltham & Heston by-election, according to new data.

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Second poll sees Labour lead increase

Another poll has given Labour a substantial increase in their poll lead.

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Ed Miliband IPPR speech in full

Ed Miliband: 'We should have acknowledged earlier that we would have made cuts.'

Read Ed Miliband's speech on the upcoming autumn statement in full on politics.co.uk.

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Chuka Umunna speech in full

Read the first speech of Labour's new shadow business secretary in full on politics.co.uk.

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Labour hardens against Europe as crisis continues

Alexander: Significant changes in Labour policy on Europe

Labour's pro-European position became noticeably more frosty today as Douglas Alexander promised a policy rethink over Britain's relationship with the EU.

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