Emma Burnell

LabourList and the Fabian Society bring you 'In Conversation with'... This episode is with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, who sits down with LabourList editor Emma Burnell to discuss her career in politics as a former advisor to some of the Labour Party's most senior figures in recent history.

We are Party members because we believe Labour is the best vehicle for the values we hold dear and delivering for the communities we love.

Changing the fortunes of young people not in employment, eduction or training could be Labour's defining mission. But it will take whole system change that will ask hard questions of all of us.

Labour members are right to feel conflicted about what is happening in the Party. Because there are no easy answers.

having been convinced that in this insecure world investing in our defence is worth it. But this must be done in a Labour way.

How Labour organises and is run matters to volunteers who give up their time, money and energy to the party.

Labour's internal rows cannot be allowed to overshadow Labour's campaign to win the Makersfield by-election.

At the start of the week, Starmer told us that “incremental change won't cut it.” So is this a set of bills that feels as radical as that level of expectation-setting might have seemed to promise?

We may know by the end of today which way West will go. And soon after, whether enough MPs will follow her lead.

Devastating day for Labour as we have lost hundreds of councillors in England, are down to just nine seats in Wales and failed to stop the SNP in Scotland.

We don’t know what will happen on 7th May or immediately afterwards. We do know that members are not happy with things as they are.

Blairite Sofa government in Keir Starmer's WhatsApp age has been the worst of both worlds. But old habits die hard.