What could a post-Miliband policy agenda look like?
Labour’s electoral disaster is rightly leading to a difficult discussion about what went wrong, the future of the…
Weekly survey: benefit cap reduction, immigration and the 50p tax rate
How should Labour react to the Tories’ plan to reduce the benefit cap from £26,000 to £23,000? In her…
Setting the record straight over Unite’s position in Scotland
In a few weeks’ time, Jim Murphy will submit his ideas on how to revive Labour’s fortunes in…
Report of National Executive Committee from Johanna Baxter – 19th May 2015
Report of National Executive Committee from Johanna Baxter meeting held on 19th May 2015 Harriet Harman’s Report Harriet…
Sadiq Khan, London Mayor candidate, slams overuse of the word ‘aspiration’ in leadership contest
Sadiq Khan, London mayoral hopeful, has said that the word “aspiration” has been used far too much in…
Only losers make concession speeches
Yes: it is time to concede and move on. Inequality doesn’t matter, social democracy is finished, the Conservatives…
Memo to the new leader: Britain’s real middle
In September 2010 I sent an open memo on the real ‘middle Britain’ to each of Labour’s then…
Andy Burnham surpasses 35 endorsement mark with backing from new MPs
Andy Burnham, one of the four people in the running to be the next Labour leader, is the…
Jim Murphy to stand down as Scottish Labour leader on 13th June
Jim Murphy, leader of the Scottish Labour party, announced he’d be standing down from the position mid-May. It…
David Goodhart is wrong: it’s not Labour activists who have become disconnected with the country
In a recent, much discussed article David Goodhart makes several keen observations about the disconnection between the Labour Party…
