Following recent victories in The Netherlands and the Paris municipal elections, Europe's centre-left is gaining ground. But Slovenia's leftist win on Sunday poses a bigger issue. On the face of it, ...

For political junkies, 2017 has provided a bumper crop of elections, particularly across Europe. This year, we have already seen key elections in the Netherlands, France, and the UK. Before the year ...

How dominant was the centre-left? From 1945 to 2000, social democratic and labour parties on the centre-left played a vital role in nearly every democracy in Europe, either as the government or, more ...

The ALP’s defeat at the 2019 federal election was a surprise. Shorten’s Labor fell short, against both wider commentariat predictions and unrepresentative polls. Yet, if we take a step back, the ...

Is there a centre-left understanding of tradition to challenge the widespread assumption that this concept is synonymous with conservatism? As the Labour Party and the centre-left more generally seek ...

Social democrats are at last facing up to the failures of globalisation to create equality or deliver for workers If Donald Trump represents the backlash against the liberal rules-based order, then we ...

António José Seguro is set to defeat far-right populist André Ventura in a landslide victory [EPA] Centre-left candidate António José Seguro is poised to comfortably beat his far-right rival to the ...

OSLO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Norway's centre-left election winners abandoned their attempt to form a majority government on Wednesday after the Socialist Left Party pulled out of the talks, a move likely ...