‘Labour must not chase coat-tails of anti-migrant right’
Labour MP Barry Gardiner on why Keir Starmer should make a positive case for immigration.
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‘Tory leasehold reform won’t fix this feudal system – here’s how Labour can’
The Conservatives' leasehold reform bill won't fix a property system my film shows is broken. Here is how Labour can, writes Barry Gardiner
‘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! With Labour 18 points ahead in the polls, it takes something as dramatic as breaking the 15-year bipartisan consensus on climate…
‘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, whether they would have or not, Covid meant the festival was cancelled. But, for me, the big headliner of 2021 was not who might have been…
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 in their thousands, chanting in chorus the words held aloft on their banner: "Trim and Triangulate!" Is this really…
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 the Liberals to "go back to [their] constituencies and prepare for government". But perhaps it is the message that Keir Starmer ought to be giving…
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 Rwanda actually say, what are its stated objectives and what is the politics behind it all? The Memorandum declares the…
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 opinion piece with a headline asking: “What is the Labour Party for?”. But that was indeed their question recently, posed in response to the party’s…
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 it must be referring to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. In fact, it was talking about hydrogen. Now hydrogen is not only the first and most…
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 news. A whitewash in the Ashes series, a ban on Novak Djokovic, and now Liz Truss commandeering her own aircraft to go down under and “advance…
Lots of things are going wrong at COP26. Here’s where there has been success
Yes! There are lots of things going wrong at COP26. And it is tempting to recite a litany of failure: £20bn a year short of the money promised to help developing countries reduce their emissions; no movement on ending coal from Australia…
Fire and rehire is wrong. MPs of all parties should back my bill to stop it
What surprised me, standing on the picket lines this week, was what had hurt people most. These workers had been told they would be fired and rehired, and frankly I thought that someone who was losing more than a quarter of their salary…