Labour is pursuing a 25% strategy. Only the soft left can build a winning coalition
It is little more than a month since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader. The summer of hope is…
Who abstained on the fiscal charter?
21 Labour MPs abstained on the Charter of Budget Responsibility vote tonight. Labour had been planning on voting…
Former Labour minister says deselections could trigger by-elections
A prominent backbencher who faced local battles with Militant in the 1980s has said that if any Labour…
In praise of careerists
Labour needs career politicians. Those in the party campaigning for the demise of the so-called ‘spadocracy’ – installed…
PMQs Verdict: Confident Corbyn finds his stride
Jeremy Corbyn’s team clearly felt that today went well; a spokesperson said after PMQs had finished that this…
Osborne’s Charter may be clever politics, but it is poor economics
Today’s debate on the Tories’ Fiscal Charter is rightly focussed on the big choice we have before us.…
McDonnell seeks to clarify fiscal charter decision ahead of Commons vote
John McDonnell is today putting in effort to explain his u-turn on George Osborne’s fiscal charter, which will…
Benn sets out possibility of Labour support for Syria intervention
The “need for action” in Syria has become “much more pressing” since the start of Russian airstrikes in…
Weekly Survey: Momentum, fiscal charter and the Privy Council
Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn have formed a group called Momentum, which says it will organise to campaign on…
No serious economist supports Osborne’s fiscal charter. Opposing it doesn’t make us deficit deniers
I have been worried about the impact of George Osborne’s fiscal charter since it was floated last summer,…
