Comment What will happen at Labour’s Annual Conference? With everyone focussed on Labour’s announcement of the leadership election result on 12 September it is easy to forget that just… Luke Akehurst 1st September, 2015, 8:15 am
Comment The battle for Labour’s soul: this leadership election is the start of that battle not the end of it It ain’t over yet. With 18 days to go, most commentators seem to think the Labour leadership election… Luke Akehurst 25th August, 2015, 8:47 am
Comment What are the other Labour elections taking place right now? The Leadership and Deputy Leadership are not the only votes full members (as opposed to Registered and Affiliated… Luke Akehurst 18th August, 2015, 9:11 am
Comment How did we get in this mess? The next few weeks are, whatever the outcome, going to be crucial to Labour’s future. Either the party… Luke Akehurst 11th August, 2015, 7:20 am
Comment We’ve already tried Jeremy Corbyn’s alternative electoral strategy and it didn’t work I’m going to start by listing a bunch of things that I believe to be self-evident truths: The… Luke Akehurst 4th August, 2015, 8:22 am
Comment What do final CLP nomination patterns mean for each leadership candidate? Two weeks ago I did an initial analysis of the patterns in the CLP nominations for Leader. We… Luke Akehurst 1st August, 2015, 9:45 am
Comment Where is Jeremy Corbyn’s support coming from? I haven’t bought the argument there is a mass entryism problem afflicting Labour’s leadership election. Entryism means an… Luke Akehurst 28th July, 2015, 8:09 am
Comment Are there any patterns in the CLP nominations so far? Are there any patterns in the Constituency Labour Party (CLP) nominations to date? Because we don’t have any… Luke Akehurst 21st July, 2015, 8:28 am
Comment The leadership candidates are keeping things civil – so should their supporters Well this current period in the internal life of the Labour Party is certainly cathartic. We appear to… Luke Akehurst 14th July, 2015, 8:37 am
Comment Don’t just moan – moderates need to organise if they want their voices heard in trade unions It did not come as a surprise that Unite nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the Leadership of the Labour… Luke Akehurst 7th July, 2015, 1:34 pm