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By Liam Smith Just over four years ago, Barking and Dagenham experienced one of the darkest days in its history. On Thursday May 5th, 2006, the British National Party won 13 of 51 council seats, and they used this as a base from which to…
The Paul Richards column Diane Abbott's announcement that she will stand for Leader of the Labour Party has set off a fire cracker at the heart of a hitherto staid affair. Because of her TV pundit status, and her controversial career, the…
By Ann Black Truly a week is a long time in politics. Thanks for all the comments so far - I'm still analysing them, but overall the mood is positive, with national results better than the doomsters predicted and hundreds of council seats…
The Paul Richards Column There was a Freshers' Fair feel to Portcullis House yesterday as new Members of Parliament attended briefings, photo-calls, and entered the Chamber for the first time. They clutched their induction packs, asked…
The Paul Richards column Yesterday afternoon I bumped into the excellent John Healey, Labour's candidate for Wentworth and housing minister, at Manchester Piccadilly station. He told me about the seats he'd been campaigning in, the issues…
By Jeremy Corbyn MP / @JeremyCorbyn Wednesday's Prime Minister's Question time saw a packed house. It was very noisy and, for some, sad - their last time in Parliament. The predictable Brown-Cameron clash was over National Insurance. David…
The Paul Richards column One of the joys of spring-cleaning is the discovery of long-forgotten Labour ephemera. In amongst the back-issues of Marxism Today, Annual Conference reports from the 1950s and Fabian pamphlets I have unearthed a…
By David Miliband MP / @DMiliband OK, so Labour's campaign is going to be massively outspent by the Tories. But, honestly, I was in Luton last week and people there were convinced that the Tory posters with the picture of Gordon with the…
The Paul Richards Column The sun is shining over Westminster this afternoon. On College and Abingdon Greens the broadcasters are building their podiums, like the men erecting the scaffold ahead of an execution. On Tuesday, Gordon Brown has…
By Jeremy Corbyn / @JeremyCorbyn Budget day started with PCS pickets outside the Houses of Parliament, the Treasury and almost every Job Centre around the country. Anyone observing MPs drive past the PCS protesters to hear Alistair…
The Paul Richards Column To enjoy the television programme Hustle you must suspend your disbelief. If you've not seen it, it's about a gang of good-looking, nattily-dressed confidence tricksters using an array of fake offices, hastily…
By Jeremy Corbyn / @JeremyCorbyn Tuesday's papers led with the interesting story that the EU is concerned that Britain will be unable to lower its debt to the required 3% of GDP by 2014. This casts aspersions on the strategy of the…
