In defence of All Women Shortlists
You can almost set your watch by it. Every few years someone – almost invariably a man –…
Luke Akehurst MP
The childcare squeeze
If you missed Monday night’s BBC Panorama, it’s well worth a look on Iplayer. The programme looked at…
Refounding Labour is about winning elections
With just over two and a half months until polling day, most Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) are focussed…
Practical steps we can all take to stop the NHS bill
The Health and Social Care Bill represents a unique threat to the NHS, the institution that provides vital…
David Miliband risks dividing moderate opinion in the party
David Miliband was right to say in his New Statesman article last week that Labour needs “comradely and serious…
Who we’re winning back (and why)
Last week I looked at the detail of who the polls said had stopped backing Labour during our slide…
Whose votes have we lost? And why?
It has undeniably been a rubbish couple of months for Labour in the national polls – though not…
Three different Labour Parties…
There seem to be three different Labour parties this week. There’s one at the grassroots which consists of…
The report that must be read
I feel I have a responsibility to write today about “Responsible Reform”, the report into Disability Allowance Reform which…
Ding dong merrily on high
Being a glass-half-full sort of person when it comes to the state of the Labour Party I thought I…
