Paul Linford

There are, broadly speaking, two schools of thought about what the Labour Party needs to do to win the next general election. One is that ...

IN an election where the state of the economy is likely to be more central than ever to the outcome, it is not surprising that the identity ...

Ever since it first surfaced during the 1992 US presidential campaign, the claim that all elections are essentially about “the economy, stup...

All elections leave a lasting legacy, but if there was one election in modern times which has influenced more or less everything that has ha...

During the course of his long career, Gordon Brown can have faced few more humiliating episodes than having to run the gauntlet of journalis...

Last week, I wrote that Tory leader David Cameron had possibly made a wrong move in seeking to 'get personal' with Gordon Brown afte...

Whenever politicians attack eachother in the run-up to a general election, it is safe to assume that some journalist somewhere will write a ...

There are some weeks as a political commentator when you can find yourself racking your brain for something to write about. On others, thou...

Alastair Campbell's appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry this week was simply designed to lay the ground for the main event in a few we...

Why don't I want anyone to win the general election that will happen sometime in the first half of this year? Because its high time our...

Sometimes, the political year is hard to predict. Back in January 2007, we could all be reasonably sure that Gordon Brown was going to beco...

Sorry Jack, but you were right all along. Gordon Brown made the right call not to hold an election in autumn 2007 - and if all the recent...

The Prime Minister's belated decision to send more troops to Afghanistan is all of a piece with his failure to anticipate the MPs' e...

Gordon Brown's use of the "c-word" this week was designed to clear the air over spending - but Labour's problems as it app...

David Cameron and George Osborne want us to think the Tories are the "new progressives" of British politics - but they can't s...

Whoever ends up leading Labour into the election, the past seven days have shown where the power really now lies. Here's today's Jo...

This week's Journal column focuses on North-East matters, namely the forthcoming retirement of at least ten of the region's 30 MPs. ...

Gordon Brown may have survived the Cabinet crisis and the Euro-elections debacle, but Alan Johnson is still in the driving seat to lead Labo...

Rather than suffer political death by a thousand cuts - or resignations - has the time come for Gordon Brown to employ the ultimate sanction...

Who will be the next Speaker? Will there be an October election? And will we get proportional representation? Just some of the many una...