Luke Akehurst: The first big battle for the new leader will take place at conference
It’s the middle of a leadership election but Labour’s rival wings are already focussed on what happens when…
Luke Akehurst
CLP nominations obscure how close the leadership race really is
So we’ve reached the end of the supporting nomination stage of Labour’s Leadership election. The headline figures on the…
Luke Akehurst: Yes, we lost the NEC elections but any talk of a split from Labour is simply silly
Monday’s NEC results were an unusual experience for me. Usual in that I lost – plus ça change…
Luke Akehurst: We had an election-winning “social movement” 20 years ago – it was called the Labour Party
Twenty years ago I was part of what would now be called a “social movement”. It grew out…
Luke Akehurst: Do we choose survival or a descent into sectarian in-fighting?
This is a very strange leadership election. It isn’t really a choice about politics, but more one about…
Let’s scrap the registered supporters scheme: if you want to vote for the leader then you should simply join the party
Whoever wins, this has to be the last time Labour uses the disastrous Leadership election system brought in…
Luke Akehurst: NEC has closed loopholes that turned last year’s contest into a lop-sided stacking exercise
So now we know Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot to defend his position as Leader. By…
Luke Akehurst: NEC analysis shows Momentum thriving in unwinnable seats
There’s another internal election going on – for six seats on Labour’s national executive committee representing CLPs. These…
Luke Akehurst: We must recruit hundreds of thousands of mainstream members to defeat the far left
It has been a terrible few weeks for centre-left politics in the UK, with the horrific murder of…
Luke Akehurst: What do we do now? We keep the faith
I don’t know where to begin. Before Thursday last week politics felt vile enough already, with a referendum…
