Luke Akehurst: A kind of functional unity across the two wings of the PLP is possible
We are in the remarkable situation where a leadership election is still being concluded, but it is not…
Luke Akehurst MP
Luke Akehurst: Tories’ cruel push for grammar schools is simply class war
For most people under pensionable age, the debate about grammar schools is a theoretical one. Not for me.…
Luke Akehurst: Embracing shadow Cabinet elections would show Corbyn cares about more than just holding on to power
If Jeremy Corbyn is interested in making Labour an effective opposition and restoring some functional party unity, he…
Luke Akehurst: Talk of deselecting MPs is unhelpful in the extreme
“Deselection” was a word that was very much in vogue in the Labour Party in the early 1980s…
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…
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…
