Unite back Jeremy Corbyn to be Labour leader – with Andy Burnham as second preference
Unite the Union has announced that they are backing Jeremy Corbyn to be Labour’s next leader. The union,…
Shadow Chancellor: Labour’s aim should be to run a surplus in normal times
Chris Leslie has said Labour’s aim should be to run a surplus in “normal times”. In an interview…
To win in 2020, we need to beat UKIP in the south as well as the north
We know that we’ve got our work cut out to win a Labour majority government in 2020. Without…
Defeat doesn’t make us defunct
It’s frustrating when protests and demonstrations are shrugged of as a meaningless waste of time and those who…
The EU Referendum could do to Labour in England what the independence referendum did in Scotland
The issue of Europe rarely stirs Labour’s soul. The current attitude of ‘we’re moderately pro mainly because the…
Yvette Cooper launches child poverty petition
Yvette Cooper is launching a child poverty petition, which calls on the government to rethink plans to cut tax…
Cutting the public health grant would be a cut to the NHS
Amidst the chaos of the coalition’s NHS reforms a few years ago responsibility for public health services moved…
Scotland has a housing crisis and it demands radical solutions
It’s vital that Scottish Labour goes into next year’s Holyrood elections with a bold and ambitious manifesto. Few…
There are too many young people in prison who don’t need to be there
Some truisms exist for many years yet nobody acts upon them. Then along comes an avalanche of evidence…
Labour’s leadership hopefuls need to ditch ‘aspiration’ and start talking about ‘meritocracy’
As the post-mortem of Labour’s election defeat takes place in the midst of the party’s leadership election, observers…
