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Tom Copley selected for Beaconsfield

red tamarin Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 10:39:57 AM GMT Facebook

Beaconsfield Labour Party has selected Tom Copley to stand against Dominic Grieve at the next election. Copley won the two-horse final round of the selection process with two-thirds of the vote.

He is an active campaigner in Nottingham where he attended university, and has worked for two of the local MPs.

Deputy Leadership Contest about to hot up?

red tamarin Tue Dec 12, 2006 at 05:59:18 PM GMT Facebook

The candidates for the deputy leadership are manoeuvring this week, with declarations of supporters expected imminently.

Andrew Pakes selected for Milton Keynes North

red tamarin Mon Dec 11, 2006 at 02:23:22 PM GMT Facebook

Local lad and former NUS President wins Milton Keynes North selection.

How to Make Policy and Influence People

red tamarin Sat Jul 15, 2006 at 10:23:04 PM GMT Facebook

Labour has done a great job in the last 9 years - they've changed Britain for the better in many ways, and they know it. But the campaign for the hearts and minds of the British people, overwhelmingly won in 1997, is collapsing around us in 2006.

There's more to this than Iraq, Blair, Prescott and Blair vs. Brown, though obviously none of that has helped matters. The big problem is policy - how it's made, how the party listens to people, and crucially how it responds to them.