Alex Smith

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The full text of Peter Mandelson's lecture to Progress this morning is now available on the Progress website. Mandelson says: "What has been instructive is how the past year has exposed the limits of David…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Peter Mandelson will this morning outline Labour's priorities for a new government and say that the party will focus on "wise spending, not big spending" to help reduce the defecit. In the speech to Progress…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Labour voices in West Yorkshire have also added their voices to the Save the General Election night campaign, below: For more details, click here. Fabian Hamilton MP (Leeds North East): "It would completely…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 George Howarth, who this time last year called for a challenge to Gordon Brown's leadership, has said in an article for Progress today that any notion of removing the PM is now "yesterday's question" and that…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Earlier in the week, Anthony Painter wrote about why General Election night must also be General Election results night. Since then, the campaign to save election night has gained steam across the party…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 To mark this weekend's Co-Operative Party annual conference, LabourList will feature exciting contrbutions from the Co-Op's MPs, PPCs, activists and supporters over the next few days. Our guest editor is…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 After 12 years in power what has Labour really achieved? Where did the party get it right and wrong? Is the social democratic model of growing public services paid for by the growth dividend dead? How can the…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A fresh report in today's Daily Mail says that Labour's backbenches still carry the threat of a stalking horse challenge to Gordon Brown's leadership. The report says: "Labour MPs plan to run a 'Gordon must…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 President Obama last night spoke of a healthcare plan built not on "rigid ideology, but on experience." Speaking to a Joint Session of Congress, and with Ted Kennedy's wife Vicki looking on, he said: "That…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The New Statesman is asking for your questions to Ken Livinsgtone. The magazine wants readers to set the agenda for a high level editorial summit to be held this month, and which will be attended by the former…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 At tonight's Compass Summer Lecture, Jon Cruddas has called on Labour to renew around the four key tenets of equality, community, sustainability and democracy. Expanding on his four key pillars during a forty…

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In a ComRes poll for today's Independent, respondants have catergorically called for the Trident scheme to be scrapped, by 58% to 35%. The news report in the paper says: "Ministers have told The Independent…