No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health

What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?

The police, the prisons and the courts are all dysfunctional, thanks to the Conservatives

Doubling down will end the Tories as a party of government

As hacked by Robert Hutton

Shit, piss and the ever-present threat of violence, as the meek and law-abiding hold back

Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit

The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again

There are plenty of blues among the reds

Labour have handed the Conservatives an electoral weapon