What would a Corbyn government mean for UK policy towards Israel?
A few days into a general election campaign, Labour will hold a ‘Clause V’ meeting. This confusingly composed…
Luke Akehurst MP
What to expect from Labour conference 2019
Labour Party annual conference 2019 starts today. What’s going to happen? Overview Until Friday night, I had thought…
Netanyahu has failed to win a majority for the second time in 2019
Israel voted yesterday in its second general election of 2019, a gambit attempted by right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin…
How to avoid failing a trigger ballot
In my previous article on trigger ballots, I wrote about how it has become much easier to “trigger”…
How Labour’s trigger ballot system works
Trigger ballots: the phrase that keeps Labour MPs awake at night. What is a “trigger ballot”? It’s probably…
The Israeli Labor Party’s existential crisis
Israelis will vote in their second election this year on September 17th. The Israeli Knesset dissolved itself on…
Leaving Labour is a mistake. Hodge, Streeting and Phillips have it right
Yet another opinion piece was published this week – Clare Foges in The Times – calling for Labour…
An apology and retraction from Emily Thornberry is needed
Emily Thornberry recently made the latest in a series of awkward interventions in the debate about Israel and…
How successful was Labour in the 2019 local elections?
A month ago, I set out my annual benchmarks of what would constitute a good or bad performance…
What would good local election results in 2019 look like?
In the run-up to every set of May elections when there isn’t a general election, I write a…
