Magna Carta, the Human Rights Act and the story Labour should tell
A controversial legal document, English in character but with suspect European hallmarks, and disliked by the scheming ruler…
Margaret Beckett urges MPs to back Angela Eagle for deputy leader
Margaret Beckett has urged MPs to nominate Angela Eagle in Labour’s deputy leadership contest. Beckett has written a…
Yvette Cooper has the right ideas, experience, and relationship with the public to be our leader
We now know which four candidates will be on the ballot paper to be Labour’s next leader. I…
12 things we learned during the leadership nomination process
So we have reached the “end of the beginning” of the Leadership election, with the close of nominations…
Kendall campaign responds to “Taliban” jibes
Toby Perkins, who is chairing Liz Kendall’s campaign, has written to both Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper concerning…
Scottish Labour: Two candidates confirmed for leader, three for deputy
As nominations for leader of the UK Labour Party close today, nominations open in the Scottish Labour leadership…
We can’t return to Labour’s Civil War years: we shouldn’t make it easier to get rid of Labour leaders
I am becoming more than a little disturbed at the rising clamour for a so-called break clause in…
Weekly Survey: Getting rid of leaders, Scottish Labour and Scottish voting rights
The leadership contest is hotting up now that we have all four candidates – Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper,…
If Labour doesn’t take itself seriously, no-one else will
On the day after 7 May, having personally seen five years of hard work pay off and my…
Leadership nominations – what do they tell us about the candidates?
He left it late, but he managed it – Jeremy Corbyn is on the ballot after a late…
