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The Brexit vote opened up the Tory Party to millions of working-class voters. They wanted a new model of government and a new model of the economy. The Conservatives promised them levelling up and they have broken that promise. With its tax…
Boris Johnson has gone and the ghost of Margaret Thatcher has returned. He is leaving behind a government on the edge of a nervous breakdown. It has learned nothing about the groundbreaking conservative politics that underpinned its 2019…
Peter Mandelson is right to call for Labour to develop a plan to lay the foundations for a new economy. He is right that Labour cannot afford to try "sneaking over the finishing line". This is a period of extraordinary opportunity and…
If Labour has a mountain to climb to win the next election, then the local elections last week have brought it to base camp. In truth, they were a mixed bag for Labour. The party had historic successes in Wandsworth, Westminster and Barnet…
"This is the dawn of a new era," declared Boris Johnson an hour before Brexit. He has exploited the opportunity of Brexit and realigned British politics. The Conservatives have political domination but not yet hegemony. It took Margaret…
Sabrina Huck argued in a LabourList piece last week that the Corbyn movement is failing to develop a coherent theoretical politics to define its identity and its aims. For too long, she writes, Labour has avoided questions of identity and…
The argument for a second referendum offers a tantalising promise of redemption from political chaos. But those in Labour who champion a second referendum and prioritise the economy over democracy should be wary. The liberal market…
The Conservative government clings to office. It has no strategic view of the country’s future. It appears incapable of defending the national interest in the Brexit negotiations. In opposition, Labour meanders, pushed one way by those who…
Labour has passed from volatile crisis into New Year inertia. The party found itself left on the sideline complaining about Brexit and forewarning of the disasters to come. The attempt by the leadership to attract attention with a New Year…
English socialism Labour is sinking in the polls. There is still some way to go before we hit the bottom. In the meantime the task is to start developing a new revisionist project to win power in the twenties and thirties. Anthony Crosland…
The history of the Labour Party is the history of the union. It was created in its current form when the Scottish Workers Parliamentary Committee merged with what had been the Labour Representation Committee in 1909. In Glasgow, Labour’s…
Despite the claims to radicalism of Labour’s new leadership it is avoiding the one big question confronting it since Labour’s devastating defeat in May. What does Labour stand for when it is no longer the party of the working class? Some in…
