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Political strategy concerns itself with two things: mobilisation and persuasion. For the past ten years – arguably longer – the Labour Party leadership has concerned itself primarily and almost exclusively with mobilisation. Appealing to…
Were it not for Covid-19, Keir Starmer would have faced voters a little over a month after becoming Labour leader. When the leadership contest began in January, May 7th was pencilled into the diaries of candidates as the day of elections…
Ask Labour members why the party has lost four successive general elections and a wide range of views will be offered. A hostile media. Internal division. First-past-the-post. Tony Blair. Jeremy Corbyn. “We won the argument.” There is one…
I recall in the weeks and months that followed defeat in 2010, Harriet Harman, the Labour party’s interim leader, rallied the troops with news of 60,000 new members. In 2015, as the party again set out to elect a new leader, the membership…
It was fantastic to see over 150 young people attending the London Young Labour annual general meeting a couple of weeks ago. The turn out and the enthusiasm in the room demonstrated the appetite for progressive change in London. In six…
London Young Labour is and should be a wonderfully diverse organisation. As this year's volunteers have shown we are diverse in terms of gender, sexuality, race, faith and age, but importantly we are also a diverse organisation in terms of…
By Adam McNicholas On BBC Newsnight last week, former Editor of The Sun Kelvin MacKenzie argued that we should not seek to understand the actions of the rioters and looters. Many people across the country shared his sentiment. People are…
By Adam McNicholas / @adammcnicholas If I had a pound for every time I had heard a Labour Party member speak of the '50,000 new members who have joined the party since May', I could be spending Easter in the Bahamas. If I had a pound for…
