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John McDonnell will today announce plans to make employees part-owners of the private companies they work for - a scheme Labour say could make workers up to £500 a year better off. The Shadow Chancellor will use his keynote Labour…
If there is one topic more than any other that British frontbench politicians have been dangerously disappointing on, it’s immigration. For years they have made platitudinous statements about migrants’ contribution to Britain before keenly…
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, a narrative has endured regardless of how well the party’s done at the ballot box or how many new membership cards are issued: he’s capturing the party and his supporters are slowly taking…
“The political centre of gravity isn't moved or fixable,” Jeremy Corbyn told Labour conference last month in Brighton, “nor is it where the establishment pundits like to think it is”. This message is as necessary for pundits as it is for…
Immigration is not to blame for this country’s problems. This should be the agenda Labour is setting on immigration. One that speaks out in favour of freedom of movement and against anti-migrant sentiment, as shadow home secretary Diane…
Donald Trump is President of the United States, the UK is leaving the EU and xenophobic right-wing populism is demonstrably on the rise. The political landscape looks bleak and the temptation to descend into a bout of hand-wringing over the…
The Conservatives have decided to charge ahead with a chillingly anti-migrant message at their party conference and the full force of this xenophobia seems to have traumatised the left. This country is becoming increasingly insular and the…
This afternoon Jeremy Corbyn addressed Labour members for his second conference speech as party leader. Much like last year he was riding high on a leadership victory - only this time round with an increased mandate following a divisive…
Last night the much-anticipated Dispatches documentary on Momentum aired on Channel 4. Many had braced themselves for a highly controversial piece of television. But this attempt to smear the Corbynista group turned out to be a failed…
Former Labour Cabinet minister John Denham has warned of the threat posed by UKIP to Labour in the left's traditional northern heartlands. New analysis has shown that UKIP is most likely to win seats in Labour areas where there is a high…
Jeremy Corbyn is set to win the Labour leadership contest – again. And we need to analyse why Corbyn won last summer and why he looks on track to win again. If the latest YouGov poll is anything to go by, a majority of Labour members and…
The Brexit result was a shock to the political establishment. Many of us on the left were distressed by the outcome; Leave ran a campaign fuelled by xenophobia and secured the support of 52 per cent of voters. In the days that followed…
