Comment This Holocaust Memorial Day, we honour ordinary people doing the extraordinary The theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day is ordinary people. Ordinary is often used as shorthand for… Alex Sobel 27th January, 2023, 8:00 am
Comment End the internal fights. Let’s focus on best practice In May 2021, Labour will fight its first campaign since ‘that’ election one year ago. For most of… Alex Sobel, Lauren McDonald & Nik Rutherford 13th December, 2020, 2:19 pm
Comment Johnson’s deal is even worse than May’s. Labour must unite against it Saturday sittings in the House of Commons fell out of fashion in the 1730s thanks to Sir Robert… Alex Sobel 18th October, 2019, 3:30 pm
Comment Labour’s public vote position is the only realistic option Labour’s endorsement of a public vote on any Brexit deal with a commitment to campaign to stay within… Alex Sobel 25th July, 2019, 4:30 pm
Comment Labour must prepare for the premiership of Boris Johnson – with a Remain position June 23rd 2016, almost three years ago to the day, was a watershed moment in British Politics. Since… Alex Sobel 23rd June, 2019, 11:06 am
Comment I followed the whip on Brexit in good faith. But our frontbenchers didn’t As a backbencher, I face no consequences for my position in the party if I break the whip.… Alex Sobel 2nd April, 2019, 2:15 pm
Comment Jeremy agrees: we must have a confirmatory vote on any deal The country is tired of Brexit, and so are we. Our national politics has become saturated with process… Marsha de Cordova & Alex Sobel 28th March, 2019, 8:20 am
Comment May’s deal is the worst of all worlds. We must again reject it decisively This is a crucial week for the country, the economy and for the Labour Party. Theresa May’s withdrawal… David Lammy, Anna McMorrin, Alex Sobel, Jo Stevens & Paul Williams 11th March, 2019, 11:00 am
Comment When markets fail, we bail them out or take ownership. But there’s another way In Marx’s seminal work Wages and Capital, he describes the economic relationship between the capitalist (owner of productive capital)… Alex Sobel 22nd February, 2019, 6:30 am
Comment Permission to speak As a recovering Parliamentary Candidate I have many narratives about the election, many explanations about why we didn’t… Alex Sobel 7th June, 2015, 3:16 pm