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If the leadership contest becomes a “Blairite, Brownite, New Labour, Old Labour” slanging match, we’ll learn nothing. And we’ll all lose

It’s only forty eight hours from Ed Miliband’s resignation as Labour leader and the level of nonsense being talked about…

Mark Ferguson

10th May, 2015, 11:43 am

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Let’s not rush this, it needs to be a primary

Leading the Labour Party after this defeat will be the ‘thirteenth labour of Hercules’, as one activist put…

Andrew Harrop

10th May, 2015, 8:00 am

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The politics of belonging: Why we need an English Labour Party

It will take some time to fully understand Thursday’s disaster. But the most difficult conclusion may be the…

John Denham

9th May, 2015, 3:06 pm

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Social justice in changing times

Yes it’s early. But the debate will be upon us very soon. Let’s be absolutely clear: the platform…

Anthony Painter

9th May, 2015, 9:47 am

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We motivated our activists, not the country

  We have become a party that looks and thinks too much like me and too little like…

Emma Burnell

8th May, 2015, 4:30 pm

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We saw it coming

  Outside of the bubble of the short campaign, Labour MPs knew earlier this year that the kind…

Jamie Reed

8th May, 2015, 4:20 pm

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The long road back

Dear LabourList Readers, When we are wrong, we need to say so. The urge to say that the…

Mark Ferguson

8th May, 2015, 8:30 am

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LabourList Editorial: Why we fight

By Mark Ferguson, Maya Goodfellow, Conor Pope, Emma Burnell and Stefan Stern  Today is election day. And today Labour goes into battle. The Labour…

7th May, 2015, 6:00 am

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Labour need a Personal Tax Road Map

This tax year the highest earning 5,000 people in the United Kingdom will pay around £9bn of income…

Jolyon Maugham

6th May, 2015, 5:13 pm

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The speech Ed Miliband could make on Friday morning

For days the Tories and the right-wing press have been questioning the legitimacy of Labour coming second but…

Andrew Harrop

6th May, 2015, 3:49 pm