Paul Mason
2014 was a year to forget for Ed Miliband – now it’s win or bust
Ed Miliband has lurched from one mishap to another over the last year. He must win in 2015 to save Labour from disintegration.
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FactCheck: is the voting system rigged in favour of Labour?
Britain’s strange electoral system means the second most popular party can still win a general election.
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Gary Gibbon
Newark – under siege from parliamentary forces
I just heard the Ukip candidate telling voters running the Tories close would be a great result, which is true, but not what candidates who think they are going to win normally say.
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron joins Nigel Farage attack on politicians
A new and rather late recruit to the tide of anti-politics joined the baying mob this morning.
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Michael Crick
How David Cameron can win a majority in 2016
Some Conservatives might not be too distressed if Scotland were to leave the United Kingdom. Not least because it would make it a lot harder for Labour to win a Westminster majority ever gain.
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Gary Gibbon
Talking in Amritsar, addressing Wolverhampton?
How much is David Cameron’s Punjabi visit an attempt to woo key voters back home?
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Michael Crick
Cameron: exclude Farage from TV debates
Include UKIP in televised debates? No thanks, David Cameron says, as Michael Crick reports.
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Michael Crick
Can Cameron get ‘Lynton without the Lyntonism’?
The problem for those around David Cameron is that they want Lynton Crosby’s election skills – not his ideological baggage. But can the Conservatives get the tactics and strategy without the politics?
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Michael Crick
‘Tim Farron vs Rory Stewart’ quashed by cross-party deal
The contest between the Lib Dem’s Tim Farron and the Conservative’s Rory Stewart in Cumbria was set to be the highlight of the next elections. But a cross-party proposal for alternative boundaries looks set to avert the battle.