Comment ‘Labour must not chase coat-tails of anti-migrant right’ On Westminster Bridge poor young men play the three card trick to trap wealthy tourists. In America there… Barry Gardiner 19th February, 2025, 10:04 am
Comment ‘Tory leasehold reform won’t fix this feudal system – here’s how Labour can’ “An End to Feudalism” was the promise our party first made to leaseholders in 1995. It was the… Barry Gardiner 31st January, 2024, 6:41 am
Comment ‘Labour must be prepared to defend net zero – and fight a snap election’ Rishi Sunak has now fired the starting pistol for the November election. Not November 2024 – November 2023!… Barry Gardiner 21st September, 2023, 11:01 am
Comment ‘Now is not the time for Labour to row back on its green prosperity plan’ The big news that year had been that Oasis might get back together for Glastonbury. In the end,… Barry Gardiner 24th June, 2023, 6:31 pm
Comment Industrial action is the one real power the worker has. Labour must support it I can hear them now. The Tolpuddle Martyrs, The Chartists, the Suffragettes, the Jarrow Marchers descending upon parliament… Barry Gardiner 14th June, 2022, 8:00 am
Comment With a united party and bold policy, we can beat the Tories at the next election As political slogans go, it didn’t work out well for that nice man David Steel when he urged… Barry Gardiner 29th April, 2022, 4:26 pm
Comment Illegal, immoral and unworkable – assessing the government’s Rwanda deal It has been called illegal, immoral and unworkable. So what does the UK government Memorandum of Understanding with… Barry Gardiner 21st April, 2022, 2:35 pm
Comment Asking what the Labour Party is for? Just look at the impact of my colleagues Time was when it would have seemed strange – heretical even – for The Guardian to run an… Barry Gardiner 13th April, 2022, 6:03 pm
Comment Let’s think beyond electric vehicles and a few battery plants: we need hydrogen “Its time has come!” So proclaimed the headline of a recent article. Loyal optimist as ever, I thought… Barry Gardiner 24th February, 2022, 1:30 pm
Comment Where the government has got it badly wrong on the UK-Australia trade deal G’day mate! When it comes to Australia, it seems the place just cannot stay out of the British… Barry Gardiner 3rd February, 2022, 2:00 pm