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The English Labour Network is going nationwide. We will ask how Labour can reach voters we struggled to win last time: those living in smaller towns, often working class, older, non-graduates, who see themselves as more English than…
Most LabourList readers will welcome the idea that water should be socially owned or at least run on a not-for-profit basis. It is a powerful, appealing and symbolic Labour policy. A couple of weeks ago, the party published a short video…
There are three tests for Labour's democracy review. Does it enhance party democracy? Does it make Labour more likely to win? And does it help Labour govern effectively as a radical, democratic socialist party? So far as England is…
The massive BBC/YouGov survey of identities, values and empowerment in England makes clear both the challenges, and the opportunities, facing the Labour Party as it aims to win the English majority it needs to govern. It confirms that…
20 years ago, Parliament was debating the Scotland Bill. Within months, both Wales and Scotland were well on the way to their own elected governments. From then onwards, England’s education, health, social care, bus, environment and…
The Labour national executive committee (NEC) intervention into Haringey, and the resignation of council leader Clare Kober, have inevitably been framed as a battle between Momentum and "moderates". Some of the protagonists on both sides…
Labour’s democracy review is well underway, aiming to improve the engagement of members across the party and to overhaul decision-making structures at every level. The review rightly recognises that increasing representation and empowering…
Labour has to win England. Despite our strength in Wales, and welcome recovery in Scotland, Labour must aim for an English majority. It’s not just the fact that we can’t rely on winning enough Welsh and Scottish MPs to give us a UK…
There can be no Labour recovery unless Labour wins England. Labour's wipe out in Scotland and it's current third place in the polls there leaves the party in an even weaker position than in England. It will actually be easier to win an…
Launching the first full academic study of how an English Parliament might work, the Director of the Constitution Unit, Professor Meg Russell, wrote "since the establishment of the devolved assemblies…some have proposed that England should…
It’s widely accepted that General Election activists constantly heard the refrain ‘Labour doesn’t stand for people like me anymore’ . The reasons remain controversial. Post-election analysis suggested that voters who spurned Labour rarely…
It is no longer possible for Labour to fudge the distinction between British and English and avoid asking who we are. To win back power Labour needs to win a majority in England; a nation where more and more people choose to call themselves…
