We should focus on how to win the wars of the future, not how we fought them in the past, writes Con Coughlin.

Here are some key lessons about how to win in the South and increase support for Labour, from the people who actually managed it: 1. Good candidates - both Andrew Smith and Kelvin Hopkins were personally popular, decent, principled MPs, prepared to vote against their party when they thought it was wrong on issues from renewal of Trident to the Gurkhas.

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The contest to become leader of Britain's Labour party will mean nothing if Labour cannot work out how to win the south, write Patrick Diamond and Giles Radice

The central argument between the Miliband brothers has been about Labour's election strategy. Their debate about why Labour lost and how to win being the subject of a major speech from each brother in the last week, as well as interventions from Lords Mandelson, Kinnock and others. Many people have noted the danger that the campaigns are talking past each other.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. - James Harvey Robinson, via Dale Carnegie's classic How To Win Friends and Influence People...

US political insider Michael Barone offers advice to the combatants in tomorrow's ground-breaking general election confrontation.

Matthew Palmer is currently seeking re-election to Kensington and Chelsea Council. I was elected four years ago in a once safe Labour council seat (65% of the ward is social housing). On the doorstep we said we wanted the opportunity...

A former Labour First Minister has been accused of telling the Tories how to win more seats in Scotland.

This is no longer just about whether most of global warming is driven by human activity - my position is very clear - but about how to win the public relations battle. Here are some suggestions on that ongoing battle.