There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.
Douglas AlexanderThe Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval by the House of Commons followed by a referendum of the people of Britain. There is no question of implementing it by the back door.
Douglas AlexanderFor me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.
Douglas AlexanderBuilding the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.
Douglas Alexander