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Labour People needs you. Over the summer, I joined Labour People: an organisation founded on the principle that Labour’s people are its greatest strength. If there’s ever a time we need to remind ourselves of that principle, it’s now…
Good news, everyone! Well, not everyone. Good news, couples! That is, couples who are married. Couples who are married, where one of them is a basic rate taxpayer, and the other one earns less than the personal allowance. If that’s your…
The first time I stood in a local election I was 21 - the same age as most of One Direction now. I mention One Direction because they’re quite popular*, which is exactly what, as a Labour candidate in a mostly student wards in the late…
I love this time of year. It doesn’t matter how many (twenty-mumble, since you ask) years have turned out to disappoint me: a new year is a blank space, full of promise. It’s especially true in a general election year. With the opportunity…
On Thursday, the government published a report into the effectiveness or otherwise of tough legal penalties for drug use, and Liberal Democrat Home Office minister Norman Baker used it to call for a radical change in drug laws in line with…
I spoke to a woman recently who can’t afford to pay her rent anymore. She works, but lately her zero-hours employer hasn’t been giving her enough work. Because she’s under 21, she earns £5.15 an hour, which is just over the minimum wage for…
The revelation earlier this week that government welfare minister Lord Freud had referred to disabled people as ‘not worth the full [minimum] wage’ seemed somewhat familiar – and not only because of the Prime Minister’s repeated assertion…
According to the liveblog on this site, yesterday’s by-election in Heywood & Middleton featured not only a second-place scare from UKIP, but a turnout of 36.02%. We’re used to by-election apathy – just 18% of the electorate voted in…
“Hi, come on in. Sorry to keep you waiting but we’ve had quite a few of these interviews to get through…It’s Ed, isn’t it? Let me introduce everyone – we’re the British people. I understand you’ve met quite a few of us already. Do you have…
Greetings, LabourList readers. I am the Ghost of Conference Yet To Come. Thanks to advances in time-travel technology I write from Manchester in September 2019, where after a disappointing ‘no’ vote on the referendum to declare independence…
Some weeks, you could use some good news. You know the sort of week. It’s raining, your rent’s too high, your bills are too high, your laundry pile is too high, that guy hasn’t called, you’re about to be single over Christmas, you haven’t…
In Manchester, with the Manchester Central by-election and Police and Crime Commissioner elections out of the way, we now have no elections expected until 2014. This doesn't mean we're taking it easy - I know members have been out on the…
