picture from Swindon Advertiser. Ed with Anne Snelgrove (PPC South Swindon), myself and GMB regional secretary, Richard Ascough.

When I was selected as PPC for Hackney South and Shoreditch ahead of the last General Election, I promised to move into the constituency. Since I believe passionately in the environment, I chose to buy a Victorian solid-brick house in Hackney and with the aim of making it into an ecohouse. Solid brick properties are

The members of Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency have run the proverbial tape measure over the three candidates set before them by the party following interviews of some 14 candidates of about 60 who expressed interest in this Labour-held seat. Debbie Abrahams won on the first vote polling a couple more than the combined votes of the two former Oldham mayors. LOL are repeating the basic lif...

A brilliant article in Progress by my friend and organisational mentor (he was Chair of Aldershot CLP when I was PPC in 2001) Keith Dibble - - relaunching "Third Place First", the campaign for Labour to rebuild its presence throughout the country

There is a, frankly, hilarious debate going on at LDV at the moment (see here) regarding the news that a 2010 PPC (somebody who failed to become an MP but who was a flag bearer for the party) has quit to join Labour. He did this because of the way he feels about the coalition. However the LibDems have fought back - taking the Independent newspaper, who carried the story, to task for ... erm, getti...

Andrew Lewin, one of the youngest Lib Dem PPC's in the May General Election (Hertford and Stortford) , who today defected to the Labour Party, said:

It is only a few months ago that my whole life, as Lib Dem PPC for Streatham, revolved around knocking on doors, meeting with community and tenant groups, delivering leaflets and doing casework. Nothing could seem more distant from the world I now inhabit, as Director and Chief Executive of CentreForum, of think tanks and

Luke Pollard, who fought an excellent campaign as PPC for SW Devon, has an interesting post on labourlist today: He warns that "in Labour’s haste to highlight Lib Dem errors and poor judgment let’s also be mindful that for many years the Liberal Democrats were the only party stopping the Tories sweeping the West county. This is important because an outright Tory majority might well be aided by...

Kate, This is a classic standoff between feminists. The old guard in your corner, and the new guard in mine. At the very least, unlike many women of my generation, I call myself a feminist. I know a Labour PPC who told me she "isn't a feminist, because I believe in equality".

I can confirm today, after several days of digging around, that editors at the London Evening Standard newspaper are sitting on a potentially explosive story on Hammersmith Conservative PPC Shaun Bailey.