Alex Smith

Alex Smith is Editor of LabourList. He spent 2007-2008 in the United States, working in New York and volunteering on the Obama campaign in Brooklyn. He then devised and ran the independent, grassroots organisation Drive for Obama, which canvassed for support across the swing states in the run up to the Presidential election. He has now returned to the UK, and is involved in his local Labour Party.

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Vote for your top three policies for the Labour manifesto

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Vote now! Each of your top 25 policy proposals has now had a full hearing, and we're ready to open voting on the New Ideas...
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The Minimum Wage: Labour supporters' most popular Labour achievement

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 LabourList readers have voted the National Minimum Wage as Labour's biggest achievement over the last 12 years of government, in a poll conducted with IPPR...
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Brown: the special relationship has never been stronger

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Quelling persistent rumours that President Obama has "snubbed" Gordon Brown this week, the PM has given this interview to Sky News today:...
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Podcasts from conference

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The Young Fabians will be putting together podcasts from the Labour conference, which begins on Sunday. If you haven't already, check out the LabourList Conference...
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What will Gordon say?

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In an interview with this week's New Statesman, Gordon Brown says nervously: "I've got my ideas and I've got my views about the future, and...
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"B*llocks!": Darling comes out fighting

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The Scotsman is reporting Alistair Darling's anger at Charles Clarke's new calls for Gordon Brown to go. Darling apprently said: "I've really got no time...
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Charles Clarke's doublespeak

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Charles Clarke has been busy today. This morning, he gave an interview to the Evening Standard in which he said Gordon Brown should stand down...
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The unknown change

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I was recently asked by Power2010 to submit an idea for how political reforms might affect the future of our democracy. My instinct was to...
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Brown: we need an active government but New Labour's basic proposition is sound

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In this month's Prospect magazine, Gordon Brown will outline his beliefs about the future role of New Labour in meeting the requirements of modern governance...
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Alan Duncan's slayer writes to Cameron

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Heydon Prowse, the man responsible for the video which ended Alan Duncan's career on the opposition frontbenches and who made the film exposing Conservative Future,...
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