Comment and Analysis

Unions are playing a stronger role than they have for many years. This comes with opportunities and questions for the movement.

Labour's challenge is not to find better lines but to build a governing philosophy and only then find the language for it.

If we are going to tackle youth unemployment, we need to support good jobs in sectors like retail, with security and opportunities for progression.

Before any new requirement on business, we must ask how it works for small businesses, not just for a FTSE 100 firms.

Wefare reforms should be judged by whether fewer people become sick, can remain in work and live without bearing additional costs they cannot absorb themselves.

Labour should introduce an MOT-style system for the private rented sector to ensure homes are stopped from failing rather than fixed after the fact.

Twenty-five years after the attacks on America, a generation that grew up expecting a more peaceful and predictable world has inherited something very different.

We need to listen to, and learn from, teachers in this attendance crisis – not as a problem to be managed, but as part of the solution.

Defence should get extra money but a new cabinet member, leading a new ministry should be spending it and ensuring it's not wasted.

We should stop ameliorating the symptoms of a system that stymies our values and instead build one that enables them.

We have begun to retake our town and city centres. But enforcement agencies need both the funding and the powers to finish the job.

It is clear that a consensus is emerging around electoral reform that spans the Labour movement - and the momentum is becoming unstoppable.