Deborah Mattinson Column: ‘Labour must never forget who it’s fighting for’
Focus groups can be depressing. For me, the worst in decades were after Labour’s shattering defeat in 2019.…
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Ben Cooper Column: ‘We need to ‘build baby build’ social housing to meet the 1.5m new homes target’
There is no path to tackling England’s housing crisis without building 1.5m new homes in this parliament. To…
Deborah Mattinson Column: Putting ‘local’ at the heart of Labour’s plan for government
Tip O’Neill, US speaker of the house from the late 70’s, is credited with inventing the expression ‘all…
‘Is factionalism for losers or is pluralism for wimps?’
I have seen no greater pleasure etched on a man’s face than the one on a staffer who…
‘I slept in my car’: Is Labour conference still worth the rising costs?
Conference doesn’t end when the hall empties. Many attendees who spill out onto Liverpool’s waterfront make for bars,…
Paul Nowak Column: ‘The left has a political and moral duty to defend the ECHR’
The Conservatives have now confirmed they want Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights. Kemi Badenoch’s…
Ben Cooper Column: ‘Gaining public consent for scrapping the two child cap is difficult but essential’
With both Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell condemning the two-child limit in the deputy leadership race, and growing…
Deborah Mattinson Column: How to get noticed when voters aren’t listening
I know exactly how stressed the team who have been preparing for conference feels right now. I’ve been…
‘Bureaucrats or talent scouts?’
Is anybody else annoyed at our milquetoast deputy leadership race or am I just looking for trouble? The…
‘Trump’s inauguration heralds profound change for America and the world’
Donald Trump will today be sworn in as America’s 47th President inside the same Capitol Building violently stormed by his…
