Labour can’t afford to ignore its membership crisis
Rebuilding Labour's grassroots must now rank alongside rebuilding its standing with the wider electorate.
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Labour membership drops by more than a fifth in 2025
The Labour Party lost more than a fifth of its members in 2025, figures published by the Electoral Commission reveal.
Three-quarters of Labour members believe Burnham can unite party – poll
Three-quarters of Labour members believe that Andy Burnham can unite the party following the change in leader, a new poll for LabourList reveals.
Burnham’s first balancing act
Andy Burnham has faced his first major test as Prime Minister - one where he finds himself forced to make trade-offs and unable to please all sides.
LGA Labour to hold by-election for group leader
The Labour Group of the Local Government Association is holding a by-election for a new group leader, after Bev Craig was elected as Greater Manchester Mayor.
Third of Labour members want next Labour leader to be a woman – poll
Almost a third of Labour members want the next Labour leader to be a woman, according to a new LabourList poll.
Bev Craig wins Greater Manchester mayoralty in landslide over Reform UK
Labour’s Bev Craig has been elected as the new mayor of Greater Manchester by a comfortable margin over Reform UK.
A devolution revolution worthy of the name
Burnham's bold plan to give mayors in England a share of income tax and business rates is transformational - and amounts to the biggest transfer of power and of funding from SW1 in a generation. The Prime Minister's vision has been centred…
Inside Mainstream: the soft left’s plan to end Labour’s factional wars
As Mainstream marks its one-year anniversary next month, we spoke to founding member Alex Sobel and the group’s chair Kerry Postlewhite.
Four unions announce boycott of Labour women’s conference over trans exclusion
Four major Labour-affiliated unions are set to boycott the party’s women’s conference over the exclusion of trans women.
Poll reveals voting intentions of Labour members for NEC election
Abdi Duale and Jess Barnard are set to top first preference votes in Labour’s NEC elections, according to a new poll for LabourList. Polling conducted by Survation found that Labour members jointly ranked Barnard and Duale as their top…
Labour members divided over performance of Starmer as Prime Minister
More than four-fifths of Labour members think Keir Starmer was right to stand down as Prime Minister, but are divided on how well he governed.