Regional NEC places will help Labour represent the working class
I am standing to be a member of Labour’s national executive committee, alongside Luke Akehurst, Johanna Baxter, Jasmin…
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Angela Rayner & Jon Ashworth: This government is failing student nurses – today Labour will vote to protect them
Tonight in the House of Commons MPs will have a chance to vote to defend support for students…
Alice Perry: We still need all-women shortlists for diversity in local government
For the first time in Islington’s history, over 50 per cent of our councillors are women. This landmark…
Gareth Thomas: Why I’m calling for a People’s Vote on Brexit
It is now almost two years since, by the slimmest of margins, the United Kingdom voted to leave…
Lessons from the racist Tory campaign of 1964 in Smethwick
Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech is notorious, but four years earlier the West Midlands had seen the…
Owen Jones: Momentum campaigning was crucial to Labour’s local election gains
Momentum’s campaigning was absolutely critical to the gains Labour made in the local elections of 2018. ‘Unseat’ days…
Luke Akehurst: Can Labour win a general election based on the local election results?
A month ago I wrote up my annual set of benchmarks for the local council elections. With the…
Local Elections 2018: Power is never given to Labour – we must take it
Last year’s general election was a Labour victory over expectations, if not the Tories. Now we cannot even…
Local Elections 2018: Where is Labour going wrong?
John McDonnell’s parting words on the BBC Elections programme tonight have been to “sit back and look objectively…
Diane Abbott: It’s time to stand up to May’s cruel and callous Tories
Recent weeks have exposed just how out of touch with reality this Tory government is. When it came…
