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News The Labour Party has delivered a blow to rival parties in the run up to election polling day next week by topping a study of the best political websites. The exclusive research conducted for silicon.com by the Usability Company puts Labour first... [25 Apr 2005]
Labour: ID card bill will return before the summer
News Legislation paving the way for identity cards will be reintroduced by the summer, if Labour wins the general election. Labour's election campaign co-ordinator, Alan Milburn, said that following events including the ricin case trial, the public... [15 Apr 2005]
Labour Party secures VPN from hackers
Case Study The Labour Party beefed up its communications infrastructure in the run up to this year's general election, in order to keep vital communications from party workers secure on the move. During the run up to the election, 250 Labour Party staffers... [25 Jul 2005]
Labour backtracks on broadband targets
News E-minister Patricia Hewitt has admitted Labour will not now set targets for the roll-out of broadband internet access in the UK. This comes in the wake of earlier statements that the Labour Party wanted the UK to have better broadband access than... [04 Jun 2001]
Labour man richer despite B2B failure
News It has emerged that the controversial winding up of B2B player J2C, formerly known as Just2Clicks, has netted a Labour politician a tidy profit approaching £500,000. Alan Donnelly, onetime leader of the Labour group in the European Parliament... [16 Oct 2001]
Labour takes Notes
News The Labour party is ditching Microsoft Mail and moving over to Lotus Notes at campaign headquarters. Having previously worked together on the 1997 election campaign Web site, this move is the first stage of a new relationship between Lotus and the... [02 Jul 1999]
Labour Party dumps online ads after US fiasco
News A source close to the Labour Party told silicon.com that the party shelved the idea after a survey published last month by America's e-Voter Institute reported that online political advertising has some unintended, and potentially negative... [07 Feb 2001]
Labour Market Reforms and Economic Growth: The European Experience in the Nineties
White Paper Inflexible labour markets combined with high welfare costs are often thought to be the main cause of low growth in Europe. This paper uses OECD data to assess the relative impact of regulation on differences in economic performance across countries... [22 Jun 2005]
Labour mulls subsidies for broadband Britain
News Two paragraphs in Labour's business manifesto - which was otherwise devoid of novelties - have set the scene for "broadband socialism" in the UK. But Labour has now added some flesh to the bones of this plan. [01 Jun 2001]
Labour reveals tech plans in election manifesto
News Technology projects including ID cards and plans to close the digital divide feature prominently in the Labour Party's election manifesto, released today. The manifesto reveals that if Labour wins the election it will deliver a "cross-government... [13 Apr 2005]
Labour website hacked in attack on 'poodle' Blair
News The Labour party's official website has been hacked and defaced with a doctored picture of George Bush and Tony Blair replacing the usual mix of party news and announcements. During Monday morning the website, www.labour.org.uk was showing a... [16 Jun 2003]
Labour insists: We're no spammers
News The Labour Party has hit back at suggestions that is has been guilty of sending spam email - insisting all email addresses had been opted-in. However, it seems original suggestions from Labour that all the emails were directly solicited from the... [11 Mar 2005]
Labour.org.uk struggles to keep up
News From the minute the Party launched its 44-page manifesto, Ambitions for Britain, yesterday, the site at http://www.labour.org.uk began to struggle and then failed to usefully respond for the next four hours. [17 May 2001]
Labour votes for Oracle
News Oracle has won a contract from the UK Labour Party to develop and install a voter ID management system to help it monitor its election campaigns. Labour said it will draw on the information during campaigns to help it focus resources in the most... [25 Jun 1999]
Labour launches manifesto for business as usual
News There were no surprises for the IT world as Stephen Byers launched Labour's business manifesto. A Conservative spokesman said: "The idea that the Labour Party could bring a light regulatory touch to anything is just ridiculous. [29 May 2001]
