Let’s keep organising to put football fans back at the heart of the game
What a day. From BBC breakfast in the morning, being pressed on the proposed new football ‘super league’…
Alison McGovern MP
Coronavirus has highlighted that sport is a Labour issue
Faced with tens of thousands of deaths and the trauma inflicted on our health and care workers, like…
The UK economy is going very wrong, and we can’t just treat the symptoms
Today I’m launching Making Ends Meet, a campaign to change our economy and not just to treat the…
How Labour should fight the European elections
When the European elections happen this May, we don’t know whether we will be electing MEPs for five…
Alison McGovern: No Brexit cherry picking – the UK is either in the single market or we’re not
Unemployment, said Harold Wilson, more than anything else, made me politically conscious. I am thinking about having his…
Alison McGovern: If you want to understand what the Brexiteers don’t, start with fish
As hardline Brexiteers stepped aboard a boat on the Thames to throw haddock into the river in protest,…
Alison McGovern: If the PM wants the “exact same” deal, that means staying in the single market and customs union
Brexit has always been essentially an exercise in contradiction. And when I say always, I mean always. In…
Alison McGovern: We need to stop Tories capitulating to the hard-right over Brexit
Naturally I couldn’t help but enjoy watching the Tories running scared at their conference last week. They looked…
Grenfell scandal reeks of the worst of Britain – Alison McGovern speech
This is the full text of the speech that Alison McGovern, Progress chair, delivered to their annual conference today. …
McGovern: Labour needs to reclaim patriotism from the narrow nationalists
In this Brexit row, the dead-end rhetoric of futile nationalism is ruining our country. It is up to…
