Comment Vernon Coaker: Why I’m backing Keir Starmer to be Labour’s next leader The reality of Labour’s election defeat, and the Tories in charge with an 80-seat majority, is already hitting… Vernon Coaker 24th January, 2020, 4:36 pm
Comment Vernon Coaker: Labour has the right message on Brexit but Sleaford by-election shows the challenge of getting it through Labour finishing fourth in a by-election – or any election for that matter – is a disaster. For… Vernon Coaker 21st December, 2016, 7:00 am
Comment Coaker: Taking on Farage’s cheap populism is key to this referendum On Tuesday, I was in Belfast to debate with Nigel Farage. An audience of over 200 hundred mainly… Vernon Coaker 3rd March, 2016, 5:54 pm
Comment Labour – a party for the Armed Forces When Labour’s great reforming government took office in 1945, Clement Atlee led a Cabinet that contained several veterans… Vernon Coaker 27th June, 2014, 9:13 am
Comment Labour has an ambitious and realistic vision for UK defence UK Defence policy is at a crossroads: UK Service Personnel will have withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end… Vernon Coaker 24th March, 2014, 8:01 pm
Featured Our Armed Forces – standing up for today’s and remembering yesterday’s This weekend, Ed Miliband and I are in Afghanistan visiting the Armed Forces in Camp Bastion. The British… Vernon Coaker 9th March, 2014, 9:05 am
Comment Every Labour council should sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant In villages, towns and cities across Britain, people of all ages, races and creeds will gather today to… Vernon Coaker 10th November, 2013, 8:00 am
Featured Miliband at the TUC: Courageous, visionary and, yes, a little risky This morning, Ed Miliband spoke to the TUC conference about One Nation Labour’s commitment to building a new… Vernon Coaker 10th September, 2013, 2:23 pm
Comment One Nation Labour is on the side of working people For too long, those who’ve worked the hardest have been the least rewarded. The last Labour government did… Vernon Coaker 16th February, 2013, 11:01 am