Luke Akehurst: The blunt truth – Labour’s vote has fallen in most parts of Britain
At the end of September and in March this year and December 2015 I reviewed Labour’ s performance in local council…
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Luke Akehurst: The threats facing Labour are worse than in the 80s but the party’s centre-left is in a better state
Things are worse for Labour than in the early 1980s is the lament from many on social media.…
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…
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.…
