This week has shown Theresa May’s nasty party is ruthless but vulnerable

By Trevor Fisher

This week saw the Conservative Party revert to type as the ‘nasty party’. Forcing Naz Shah MP to vote in a wheelchair clutching a sick bowl on her lap echoed what the Tories did in 1950-51. Facing a Labour government down to a majority of only five, they forced Labour MPs to come to Westminster in ambulances and vote by being pushed on hospital trollies. The Tories smelled power, and won the election of 1951 with a comfortable majority. They are […]

Podcast: LabourList and The New Statesman

This week, LabourList editor Sienna Rodgers joined special correspondent Stephen Bush on the New Statesman podcast to discuss Theresa May’s ‘Brexit dividend’ for the NHS, Labour’s NEC elections and why Jeremy Corbyn is calling for a free vote on Heathrow expansion. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Yasmin Qureshi: Our justice system is being brought to its knees by Tory cuts

By Yasmin Qureshi

You may not know, but the government is undertaking a substantial courts reform program that will fundamentally change the way justice is delivered in this country. Yesterday, the government’s Courts and Tribunals Bill was debated in parliament. This bill ought to be a chance for parliament to finally have its say on a £1bn plan to transfer more court hearings online or operating them through remote video-links. Yet, disappointingly, the bill does not address the significant changes being made to […]

Should pro-EU campaigners pressure Labour over Brexit – and if so, how?

By Sienna Rodgers

Another seismic Brexit vote promised, another disappointing outcome produced. In the run-up to yesterday afternoon, when the ping pong between the Commons and the Lords meant MPs were voting on the ‘meaningful vote’ proposal for a second time, Westminster was anxious and excited for what was expected to be a close result. Alas, Theresa May somehow managed yet again to quash a rebellion. The ‘meaningful vote’ amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill, which could have given MPs the power to […]

Mike Gapes: Learn from history – join me on the March for a People’s Vote

By Mike Gapes

From its very foundation, Labour was established as a people’s party that would give voice to those excluded from power, wealth and opportunity by the elite and entrenched special interests. To create this new party, trade unionists joined with Fabian reformists and social democrats. We were not like the Tories and the Liberals, founded as organisations to support those who were already in parliament. The world has changed fundamentally since our party’s founding conference in 1900. Then only a minority […]