I understand John Woodcock’s intervention – but we should be wary of this tone entering the debate
I am not quite sure where to begin with John Woodcock MP’s intervention in the leadership debate. John…
Luke Akehurst
Who are Labour’s most successful leaders?
One of the up sides to having blogged for nine years is that there are certain key posts…
12 things we learned during the leadership nomination process
So we have reached the “end of the beginning” of the Leadership election, with the close of nominations…
Why Jeremy Corbyn should be on the leadership ballot
Today MPs will start to formally nominate candidates for Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Thus…
The battlefield in 2020
Last week I looked at the detail behind the General Election results to see what the lessons were…
An anatomy of Labour’s defeat
Now that we are a couple of weeks past the initial shock it is time to start looking…
Labour does not need uniformity, but unity
On Friday evening I went to my local Labour Party meeting in Oxford. What we had hoped would…
It wasn’t what was in our manifesto that was the problem, it was what was missing
Well that was an unmitigated disaster. Last Thursday wasn’t the re-run of 1992 that some had feared, it…
If Labour has the chance to form a government, we will have a constitutional duty to accept
We are getting near to the end of what, because the fixed-term Parliament has meant we have always…
Scotland – it’s not over until the bagpiper plays
Yesterday’s TNS poll of Scottish General Election voting intentions has caused more justifiable doom and gloom regarding Scottish…
