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Apologies for a late column this week (I’m sure none of you noticed, but editor Mark’s frowny emoticons have cast a black cloud over my week) – but I’ve been preoccupied with preparing for Annual Conference. Some years this simply means…
My tour of the south continues in Cambridge for the regional launch of Labour’s Action Plan for Family Budgets. I do an interview for Look East in Cambridge Market in which I am able to talk about some of the action Labour would take to…
Back in the south-east and Crawley is my first stop to launch Labour’s Local Election campaign. I have visited Crawley a number of times over the years when Laura Moffett was MP. Laura has gone back to nursing still sporting I presume the…
When I think of what inspired me at school, it was the faith that my most determined teachers put in me – their confidence in my potential was what drove my ambition to succeed. The ironically named Mr Coward, who taught me A-level…
The problem with agreeing to write a weekly column is sometimes you get absolutely stumped for ideas. That’s when the Editor, in this case our good comrade Mark Ferguson, picks a topic for you. This week was one of those weeks so he’s asked…
I’m using my column this week to put in a plug for the 636 unsung heroes of the Labour Party, Constituency Labour Party (CLP) Secretaries. As an NEC member I think they deserve a lot more recognition. Being Secretary is the key job in any…
The Paul Richards column Dogs featured heavily in David Cameron's speech yesterday. He was keen to be seen as the 'top dog', so he said 'leadership' nineteen times. He wanted us to know the economy has gone to the dogs. He appealed to the…
Grace Fletcher-Hackwood's column will be back tomorrow. Somehow we think the Tory conference in her back yard might feature...
Hopi at Home By Hopi Sen First, the good news. It's much, much easier to follow Labour party conference as a weekday office drone than if you're relaxing over the weekend. today I was at work, but judicious application of twitter feeds…
Hopi at Home By Hopi Sen I'm a cheat. I wanted to be a virtual conference goer, poring over plenary sessions and speeches by absorbing the twitter, rolling news and app based #Lab11 data flow available to today's keyboard warrior. But I…
Back in the Bubble with Alex Smith A year ago this morning, I was one of a small team of about ten people who awoke in the corridor of hotel rooms inhabited by the brand new leader of the Labour Party. Somewhat bleary-eyed - we'd only…
The Paul Richards column Labour faces a double dilemma. The first is the balance between opposition and support for the government. In a political battle where government and opposition parties are seeking to occupy similar chunks of…
