Ed Miliband MP

Ed Miliband achieved a political first today when he used Have I Got News For You's "odd one out" round as his inspiration for a political speech. One wonders what the audience at Google's Big Tent ev... Continue to article

Ed Miliband is speaking at the Google “Big Tent” event this morning, and as we noted earlier this week, he’s picking a bit of a fight with them over their tax affairs. Understandably, most of the pres... Continue to article

Prime minister David Cameron and French president Francois Hollande are expected to hold a joint press conference in Brussels (20.00) Labour party leader Ed Miliband speaks at the Google Big Tent event in Rickmansworth (09.00) Deputy ... Continue to article

Labour’s leader planned to use his Progress address to launch a full-frontal attack on Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and their New Labour legacy. He had made efforts to bury New Labour before. But this time the intention was to see it hung, drawn and quartered. Continue to article

  It is not difficult to imagine Nigel Farage at the Bar of the House. I am thinking not so much of the line marking the boundary of the chamber, more of Strangers’ Bar. Farage would fit in well there, supping a pint of bitter or a large... Continue to article

  White House hospitality or House of Commons hostility? It’s an easy choice really. David Cameron may be beginning to resemble the houseguest that never leaves, but hey, it’s a special relationship. No one will mind if he sticks around ... Continue to article

  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 once home to significant manufacturing and mining communities with a range o... Continue to article

This is madness. Ed Miliband’s critique of managerial politics and its bureaucratic, top-down remoteness has always been spot on. Yet I can’t think of an issue where the governed and the governing are further apart than on Europe. Continue to article

In the Commons, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson calls Ed Miliband a 'wishy washy wally of a shadow leader' over Europe.

The time has come for Ed Miliband to put up or shut up. Last October, he stood on the stage where he had accepted the Labour leadership 24 months earlier, and told his party conference: “I didn’t beco... Continue to article

Ed Miliband’s party already have a tailor-made set of beliefs that tackle head on the alienation and anger that has turned almost a quarter of the country purple and yellow. Continue to article

Ed Miliband MP, leader of the Labour Party, in a speech to the Progress annual conference 2013, said: Thank you for that kind reception. But it is great to be here at Progress. For nearly 20 years Progress has been an important forum for... Continue to article

There is nothing like real elections to concentrate minds and the most furrowed brows over this weekend will be in the Conservative Party. The recriminations inside the Tories have already started as the party comes to terms with Thursday's... Continue to article

  Mark Wallace is executive editor of ConservativeHome There is a war at the top of Government over the Queen’s Speech. This isn’t the sniping between rival ministers, or the familiar attrition between the front and back benches. It’s... Continue to article

Starting in the early hours of tomorrow morning, we shall be bombarded with analyses of the local election results. Are the gains and losses for each party above, below or on a par with expectations? Is Ed Miliband on course to become Prime Minister? Has UKIP overtaken the Liberal Democrats? Continue to article

  This pic of Nigel Farage sitting outside a pub in the MayDay sunshine, pint at hand and reading Private Eye's 'Clowns' splash, is in many ways the perfect PR for the UKIP leader. The Press Association photo is so good the Daily Tele... Continue to article

His World at One interview showed Miliband wriggling over the economy. But the public is receptive to an alternative to austerity Continue to article

Something is happening on the centre ground of British politics. An exodus. The Conservative leadership is being lured to the right. Ed Miliband is pulling his party to the left. Only the Liberal Democrats are holding firm. Continue to article

Ed Miliband's position on the Winter Fuel Allowance "has not changed", a source said today. A senior Labour source told PoliticsHome: "Of course we look at all these issues, but as Ed made clear twice in the interview Labour supports th... Continue to article

Judging by the broad, if sometimes shaky, support Ed Miliband enjoys from the Labour left, there is a general acceptance now that the Party has moved some clicks along the political spectrum towards s... Continue to article

Ed Miliband is preparing for a major reshuffle after the autumn party conference, the Guardian reports. Continue to article