Warning from Essex: Labour can’t bank on working class voters returning to the fold
Essex is an odd starting point for 2019 election analysis. The Basildon bellwether is no more. The Tories…
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An invitation to leadership contenders – visit my ward in Barnet
In 2018, I was the only Labour gain in Barnet on a night which saw our awful Conservative…
Rebuilding trust, encouraging ambition, demonstrating competence
As the Labour Party begins its search for a way to win back former supporters who voted Conservative,…
Labour Together: Our party must find the humility to listen and learn
Labour Together has launched a review, which attracted plenty of attention from across the party. We’ve had many…
The economically literate manifesto that could have united the left
The relative simplicity of Labour’s 2017 message – hope and radicalism – contained within it an intriguing new…
Under Boris Johnson, we can’t take democracy for granted
As members of a democratic socialist party, we have focused on the social implications of our election defeat:…
The fightback begins with the West Midlands mayoral election
It has taken Boris Johnson less than a week to abandon his commitments to raising the minimum wage,…
2019 intake of BAME MPs should be celebrated – but more must be done
During a bitter discussion about the general election on the first post-election Parliamentary Labour Party meeting, the newly-elected…
Emily Thornberry: My answers to five key leadership questions
My colleague Alison McGovern tweeted a series of very important organisational and political questions yesterday, which she said…
Labour must confront its existential challenge
A few months ago, I wrote in LabourList that Labour should learn a lesson in left populism from…
