Election update: parties look to define themselves, their coalitions and their opponents

With the election approaching, parties are scrambling to signal who they are and who they might work with – often by ruling things out rather than ruling them in , writes Henry Oliver in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here . Labour tries (and fails) to keep its head down Labour spent much of the week trying to define itself – and distance…