‘Voices from Clacton: five lessons on how to fight Farage’
This is the start of a fight to win back the trust of voters like those in Clacton. The winner will be the party that ends the neglect of these coastal towns.
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Labour party manifesto 2024: ’12 great policies you may never have heard of’
Last weekend I actually sat down and - probably as a result of too much caffeine and too few hobbies - read the whole 136 pages of our manifesto.
Accommodation Action is fighting back on poor housing, but we need your help
ITV news has just exposed what experts are calling ‘the worst housing in Britain’ right here on our doorsteps in Croydon. Black mould-saturated walls were exposed in a South Norwood tower block, leaving families at risk of electrocution as…
Fire up your laptop. Let’s build the big ideas for Labour to win
As we virtually arrive at conference, the call to action is clear. Your registration acceptance email reads: “Connected – bringing our movement together”. The explicit goal is aligned with Keir Starmer’s leadership pitch – unity and an…
Gavin Williamson has no trust, no credibility and must resign
I listened to the Education Secretary on the Today programme this morning and, probably like many of you, got increasingly angry at each of his vacuous replies and the blatant shirking of his responsibilities following the exam results…
Rowenna Davis: Why I’m standing to be a Labour London Assembly candidate
A 16-year-old was stabbed outside East Croydon station last week. Reportedly, it took 40 seconds to end his life. The attack took place less than a mile from my school, at about 4.45pm when many of our students were returning home from…
The South is not a foreign country
There is a myth in Labour circles that has become engrained. It's called the "Southern voter”. This caricature is selfish, anti public sector and has a chip on their shoulder. They drive flashy cars and slam doors in your face. They are…
Who says people are disillusioned with politics?
By Rowenna Davis Labour suffered some big defeats last week, but in one small corner of Southwark, South London, we won a massive victory. In a by-election in The Lane ward in Peckham, I was elected to become councillor with a 2000+…
Mr Cameron, your speech was hypocritical, hollow and dangerous
By Rowenna Davis Mr Cameron, you started your speech today saying you were a rather "uncomplicated" man. Your personal simplicity is perhaps the one part of your speech that I agreed with. Never have I been so proud of being on the left as…
Gordon’s getting a bit anti-social
By Rowenna Davis Nice speech Gordon. But why do you want to ruin such a progressive set of policies with an outdated return to the antisocial behaviour agenda? The PM's speech this afternoon was littered with inflamatory rhetoric on…
Denham: we may need to change the welfare system to adapt to people’s sense of fairness
By Rowenna Davis Do the Brits hate benefits? Well not really, but they do kind of hate the people on them. This was the main finding behind a key Fabian report presented at party conference last night. Most taxpayers think that people on…
Are Labour losing women’s votes on public services?
By Rowenna Davis Gordon Brown has been criticised for not taking women seriously in the past, but a new poll suggests that he might want to pay them a bit more attention. A new gender gap appears to be splitting the electorate as women…