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By Barry Gardiner / @barry_gardiner Despite the failure to guarantee 40% of shadow cabinet positions for women MPs, good organisation and the proportional increase of women in the PLP at the general election could still see 50% of seats go…
By Jack Kiffin and Larry Smith As well as helping to select our new leader, Labour MPs will be voting over the next month to decide who will be in the party's first elected shadow cabinet for fourteen years. With so many of the figures who…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Today the candidates have been at the TUC, attending the penultimate hustings of the leadership campaign, before the final televised tussle on Thursday when they clash on Question Time. As a Populus poll…
By Declan Gaffney Confirmation bias is the tendency to find what you are looking for in the evidence while ignoring any facts which would require you to revise your pre-conceived views. Last week, the ONS's annual bulletin Work and…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk There's an interesting development in the leadership race today, as a new poll from YouGov suggests that Ed Miliband will pull ahead of his brother when second and third preferences are taken into account…
By Martin Tiedemann / @mtiedemann When Alex Baker asked LabourList back in June 'when are our leadership candidates going to start co-operating?' it was at the beginning of a long, long summer of debate and soul-searching in the party…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Tonight all of the candidates were at the Fabian Women's hustings, which by all accounts were well attended. Today there was an important vote within the PLP - but what have the candidates been up to on…
By Sunder Katwala / @nextleft The Ed Miliband campaign says they expect to win the Labour leadership on second preference votes. The Guardian reports the claim that their canvassing returns show supporters of Diane Abbott, Andy Burnham and…
By Mark Ferguson / @MarkFergusonUK Labour's five leadership candidates have just come off the Sky News' debate stage in Norwich. It was one of the last chances the candidates will have to speak to the country in a TV debate. Once again…
By Mark Ferguson / @MarkFergusonUK There's a whole slew of Labour leadership-related article in today's Sunday papers. The most striking thing about them is that the media, at least, now clearly perceive this to be a two-horse race…
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB In the last of three articles about the events of the five days immediately following the election in May leading to the formation of the coalition, Brian looks at the lessons of those events for the Labour party…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Perhaps the most interesting findings from the most recent LabourList leadership survey are the answers that were given to the non-leadership questions. As well as asking about your voting intentions, we…
