The uncredible shrinking party: Labour’s sliding irrelevance
Labour is a shrunken Party. Shrunken not just by objective measures such as seats and vote share, but…
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Are you now or have you ever been…?
I am struggling at the moment to think of anyone I know who hasn’t recently been called a…
Why is Jeremy Corbyn doing so well?
“Jeremy Corbyn is a rare politician; he’s putting forward a plan that could benefit everyone in the UK,”…
Kendall and Corbyn are more alike than their supporters would like to admit
Both Liz Kendall and Jeremy Corbyn have more in common than they or their supporters will admit. Both…
Welfare row shows that the battle to come will be all the harder if we are divided
The four Labour leadership contenders have more in common than they disagree about. This should be pretty obvious.…
Abstaining on the welfare bill was sensible – Labour must keep its eyes on the prize: winning
A party deeply divided. This is how the media portrays Labour and it plays directly into the hands…
Labour didn’t need to abstain on the welfare vote
Repeat after me – Britain isn’t broke. Welfare for the third child in middle-income families is not an…
Why I voted against the welfare reform and work bill
Last night I joined 47 of my colleagues in opposing the governments’ Welfare Reform and Work Bill and…
Labour fallout from the welfare vote revolt: what does it all mean?
This article is expanded from the LabourList morning email, which you can sign up for here. You can…
To mobilise support for a Yes to Europe, we need to engage with the difficult questions
Europe was founded on the principle of solidarity, which is of course also a fundamental principle of the…
