‘Why Keir Starmer will need a new identity politics of his own to keep Labour’s winning coalition together’
British voters rarely change their governments at election time. It has happened only three times – 1979, 1997…
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‘Victory will be short-lived unless Labour fixes broken services with proper funding and public ownership’
The country is broken. NHS waiting lists spiralling out of control. Energy bills rising so fast they’ve sparked…
Labour Party manifesto 2024: The Clause V meeting that signs off final document
With the general election almost a month away, Labour staff are working hard behind the scenes to finalise…
‘Why Labour is right to hedge its bets on the US elections’
It’s now just six months before Americans go to the polls to choose their next President. But predicting the election outcome…
‘Braverman’s call to scrap two-child cap rings alarm bells for Labour in power’
Over the weekend, Suella Braverman – one of the most right-wing MPs in the Conservative Party – dropped…
‘Securonomics, Heevesianism… why you won’t find Labour’s vision in buzzwords’
Thirty years ago, Gordon Brown was being ridiculed for his reference to “Post Neo-Classical Endogenous Growth Theory” –…
‘The locals underlined the weaknesses of the mayoral model. But Labour can fix it’
Eight weeks ago, I warned of “huge embarrassment” if the party did not sweep the mayoral board. Richard Parker’s…
Local elections: ‘The right split vote is more damaging than left splits’
Local elections are drawn-out affairs. Unlike in a general election where the result is known by the morning,…
‘National flags and identity can be inclusive – we’re right to embrace them’
From the very beginning, Keir Starmer’s Labour has been proudly patriotic. The 2022 Labour Party conference opened with…
‘Labour must unite us around the NHS, not start fights and culture wars’
Under the Conservatives, our NHS has gone from being world-leading to on its knees. In 2014, a Commonwealth…
