Luke Akehurst: We should be disgusted when our comrades whitewash Castro’s labour camps, torture and firing squads
The eulogising of Fidel Castro by some members of the Labour Party – some of them very senior…
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Luke Akehurst: Clinton’s fate shows Labour the danger of ignoring white working class voters
When I first started following US elections in 1988, pretty much the most reliable states of the not…
Luke Akehurst: Talk of a “progressive alliance” is borne out of a premature despair Labour can ever win again by itself
I’m bemused by the sudden resurgence of interest in the notion of a “progressive alliance” – a deal…
Luke Akehurst: My blueprint for CLP unity – based on what I got right and wrong
After a period of great turmoil and division in the party nationally, and huge change in the composition…
Luke Akehurst: As centrists we must find the people and policies to inspire – and reject the politics of electoral suicide
Labour politics is going to get a bit more boring for a while. Anyone expecting a split or…
Luke Akehurst: Revealed – the true picture of Labour’s results in council by-elections
In March and December I reviewed Labour’ s performance in local council by-elections. The leadership election result and…
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: 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…
