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Thousands of delegates, as well as Labour MPs, lobbyists, activists and journalists will soon descend on the great city of Liverpool for the annual spectacle known as Labour Party conference. The rest of the country will mostly only…
Every year Labour needs thousands of talented, motivated people to represent their communities as local councillors. We also need hundreds of candidates to represent Labour at the next general election. This includes seats where Labour has…
Last month, I set out my annual benchmarks for the May elections. How did Labour do against the various measures? There are four main ways of measuring Labour’s national performance: national projected vote share, raw number of councillors…
In the run-up to every set of May elections when there isn’t a general election, I write a guide to what constitutes success for Labour. I’ve been writing this since 2011, so I am able to look back at the benchmarks I set for previous…
My first few weeks in parliament were daunting. Mainly because the journey from selection to election just over a month later had been a little quicker than I had anticipated. I was still a sitting councillor, cabinet member and deputy…
Union talk among Labour members has centred on who’s backing who in the leadership contests, with the party’s affiliates pulling behind various candidates. As workers continue to walk out or prepare to strike against their bosses though…
A new Prime Minister, 39°C heat and the end of Love Island: it’s all been kicking off since my last column. Neither the advent of Boris Johnson in Number 10 nor the hottest July on record have been welcomed by the major trade unions, with…
For the first time, my column now looks at the breadth of industrial action taking place across trade unions, not just those affiliated to the Labour Party. The RMT is balloting for strike on the London Underground over staffing cuts…
Strikes and ballots The Birmingham bin strike is back on next week, as the workers assert yet again that they are not to be messed with. More than 300 refuse collectors in Unite are fighting the Labour-controlled council’s ‘secret’ payments…
Spotlight on Cammell Laird In my last column, I mentioned the ballot result from the workers at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead. The battle is now on to save 291 livelihoods at the shipyard, representing 40% of the total workforce. Unite and…
Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth is guest editing LabourList this week. Click here to sign up to the morning email. “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the…
This is the latest in a series of weekly election campaign blogs written by Andrew Gwynne, Labour’s campaigns and elections chair, for LabourList. We only have one week left to fight for a Labour government that will stand up for the many…
