My message to leadership candidates? We did not get it all wrong
The majority of party members are supportive of the policies in our manifesto, whether they voted for Jeremy…
Bill Esterson
Johnson’s language is outrageous – but let’s not be side-tracked
Parliament, on a night that will live in infamy, became a bear pit on Wednesday. It was at…
Bill Esterson: Labour is the true party of small business
Labour is the true party of small business. It’s been clear for the last eight years that the…
Bill Esterson: To the voter turning away from Labour over immigration and the EU – we must give you a vision for the future
An open letter to one of my constituents Thank you for talking to me when I knocked on…
Bill Esterson: Trump’s worldview is incoherent and implausible but it shows us why the centre-left also needs a vision
Democrats in the US and Labour in Britain have to recognise that we lack vision. The centre-left has…
Bill Esterson: Families, young people and small firms need help – otherwise all the Tory talk about “strugglers” is just hot air
We face a chronic shortage of homes to rent. According to this week’s report from the Royal Institute of…
Bill Esterson: British ministers must demand our fair share of the Apple tax pie
Apple has been told by the European Commission to pay €13bn (£11bn) in taxes to the Irish government.…
Bill Esterson: Let’s stay in the EU, and start to use some sharp elbows, just like the Italians
Last week I was the guest speaker for a group of accountants, lawyers and architects in Sefton. I told the…
Why Britain Needs a Labour Government
Lots of people have asked me why Labour isn’t in government. What went wrong? The truth is that…
Regional banks: a crucial ingredient to help small business
On 19 November, I was at a meeting at the German Embassy with the head of the German…
