Columnist ‘Voters are sick of being ripped off. Public ownership must be Labour’s solution’ Last week, Angela Rayner compared renationalisation to Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget, saying it would be ideological and cost… Cat Hobbs 20th September, 2023, 4:20 pm
Columnist ‘The government’s plans for post-election spending cuts are a trap for Labour’ This is a story about public capital investment. I know it might not sound like the makings of… George Dibb 19th September, 2023, 11:42 am
Columnist ‘To rebuild trust, Labour’s asylum policy must combine control and compassion’ Immigration had played particularly well in the tabloid press and had “more potential to hurt”. That was Andrew… Sunder Katwala 14th September, 2023, 8:12 am
Columnist ‘Labour must get stuck into culture wars by healing divides, not ignoring them’ How do you call off a culture war? Most of us can easily think of some political and… Sunder Katwala 6th September, 2023, 7:30 am
Columnist Summer reading list: Five things to read to understand Labour’s economic thinking A hush settles over Portcullis House. Parliament Square empties of staffers and is refilled with tourists queueing for… George Dibb 19th August, 2023, 12:24 pm
Columnist ‘Starmerism is not a Blairite project. New Labour’s liberal quality is under threat’ In 1995, at a key moment in the creation of New Labour, Tony Blair gave a speech to… Jon Cruddas 8th August, 2023, 12:46 pm
Columnist ‘Uxbridge was an aberration – our Selby win points to potential Tory wipeout’ Last Thursday’s by-election in Selby and Ainsty, where Labour overturned a majority of over 20,000, was an utterly devastating defeat… Christabel Cooper 24th July, 2023, 11:32 am
Columnist ‘Labour’s pre-election nerves must not prevent vital short-term spending’ It is a summer of discontent. For more than a decade, things in Britain have been going downhill… Andrew Harrop 20th July, 2023, 8:00 am
Columnist ‘Many voters don’t know Starmer or his policies – but he can still win a landslide’ Labour are now odds-on favourites to win the next election. Starmer leads Sunak on nearly every important electoral… Scarlett Maguire 4th July, 2023, 8:20 am
Columnist ‘Labour can’t take ethnic minority votes for granted – it must find a voice on race’ Labour has won most Black and Asian votes in every general election for the last half century. But… Sunder Katwala 2nd July, 2023, 9:58 am