‘A troubled history: Leaders and their manifestos, from MacDonald to Wilson’
“Labour policy is directed to the creation of a humane and civilised society.” So announced Labour’s Appeal to…
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‘Victory will be short-lived unless Labour fixes broken services with proper funding and public ownership’
The country is broken. NHS waiting lists spiralling out of control. Energy bills rising so fast they’ve sparked…
‘Labour manifesto shows a new centrism – with the state key to driving growth’
If Labour’s manifesto for the 2024 General Election reads more like a strategic plan for Britain than a…
‘Labour’s manifesto is more ambitious than the Ming vase strategy suggests’
For all the talk of Labour’s safety-first approach and Keir Starmer’s ‘Ming vase’ strategy, the 2024 manifesto launched…
‘The manifesto’s not perfect, but at the launch you could feel change is coming’
I watched the 2019 manifesto launch on a livestream in a cluttered campaign office with now-NEC member Abdi…
‘The Labour manifesto’s health policies demonstrate little-noticed radicalism’
Labour launched a manifesto today in front of a single word: change. It’s a powerful message to a…
Labour manifesto: ‘What GB Energy will do and why we desperately need it’
At the centre of Labour’s manifesto today was a commitment to create GB Energy: a new publicly owned…
‘No surprises, but fear not: Labour manifesto is the start, not the end’
Labour is used to policymaking processes that build towards three things: the publication of a manifesto, a general…
‘Labour’s 2024 manifesto is a substantial core offer, not the limit of its ambition’
Labour’s campaign slogan is a hard one to forget – change. But change to what? That was the…
General election 2024: ‘Why Monmouthshire CLP is setting the standard in this campaign’
Ilford North, a semi-urban outer London seat on the other end of the M4 – and then some…
