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Labour’s ground campaign in the lead-up to May 7th was bigger than ever before, with our activists engaging…
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Labour must offer popular, big-tent politics to reach out to voters in 2020
Victory for the Labour party in 2020 is going to be more than twice as difficult to achieve…
The battlefield in 2020
Last week I looked at the detail behind the General Election results to see what the lessons were…
Working people are the real victims of Tory attacks on trade unions
Last week, through the Queen’s Speech, our worst fears were confirmed as the Tory plans to “reform trade…
How do you build a majority against secret tribunals for multinationals in the European Parliament?
Investor-State Dispute Settlements, or ISDS, are special tribunals included in trade deals for investors to seek redress from…
What could a post-Miliband policy agenda look like?
Labour’s electoral disaster is rightly leading to a difficult discussion about what went wrong, the future of the…
Setting the record straight over Unite’s position in Scotland
In a few weeks’ time, Jim Murphy will submit his ideas on how to revive Labour’s fortunes in…
Only losers make concession speeches
Yes: it is time to concede and move on. Inequality doesn’t matter, social democracy is finished, the Conservatives…
Memo to the new leader: Britain’s real middle
In September 2010 I sent an open memo on the real ‘middle Britain’ to each of Labour’s then…
David Goodhart is wrong: it’s not Labour activists who have become disconnected with the country
In a recent, much discussed article David Goodhart makes several keen observations about the disconnection between the Labour Party…
