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To sustain itself in government, Labour has two fundamental tasks which Keir Starmer must grip in his speech at this week’s conference. First, convey to voters the government’s core political objectives. And second, ensure that Ministers…
Thursday’s election results dramatically underlined how far Labour has reversed the ‘Southern Discomfort’ that afflicted the party for much of the last fifteen years.
This month heralds the publication of a swathe of books commemorating the first Labour government in January 1924. The anniversary is an important historical moment which raises pertinent questions, the most fundamental of which is why the…
It has to be said that Anthony Crosland, among the leading post-war revisionist social democrats in the British Labour Party, was never regarded as a serious leadership contender by the mainstream of the labour movement. He stood for the…
Across the advanced economy nations, centre-left parties are governing in hard times. The Mile End Institute’s recent conference sought to assess the constraints that a prospective Labour government is likely to face in office, alongside…
Anthony Crosland’s momentous treatise on The Future of Socialism was published 60 years ago, in a Britain afflicted by a sense of national crisis not dissimilar to the one we confront today. The year 1956 was a torrid one for the British…
More must be done to tackle the marginalisation of young people in Britain, and the inequality of opportunities and rewards they face. In an era of social democracy with no money, Labour must articulate the hard choices and trade-offs…
