Comment Brexit spells ruin for our country – MPs must be free to vote against it The recent 448-75 parliamentary majority in favour of Theresa May triggering article 50 (A50) by end March, just weeks away,… Brian Barder 22nd December, 2016, 4:22 pm
News Corbyn critic Jamie Reed quits parliament for job in the nuclear industry Jamie Reed resigned his Commons seat today to take up a job at the Sellafield nuclear plant. The… Peter Edwards 21st December, 2016, 5:50 pm
Comment After the Brexit vote Labour can put race equality back on the political agenda In December 2015 I was approached by Jeremy Corbyn and Kate Green, then the shadow minister for women… Patrick Vernon 21st December, 2016, 3:00 pm
Comment From Keir Hardie to Blair, Brown and Corbyn: The political books to buy your Labour friends this Christmas Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn stormed to the Labour leadership by Rosa Prince, Biteback. Sceptical… Peter Edwards 21st December, 2016, 12:00 pm
Comment We need to be kept safe but nobody would agree to let the police or ministers seize our phone records whenever they want This is the full statement issued by Labour deputy leader Tom Watson after the European Court of Justice… Tom Watson 21st December, 2016, 10:47 am
Comment McCluskey: Pay deal for bus drivers shows what can be achieved when progressive politicians work with trade unions This is the full statement published today by Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, after London mayor Sadiq… Len McCluskey 21st December, 2016, 10:13 am
News Sleaford vote shows we must listen to voters on EU and immigration, former shadow cabinet minster tells party Labour’s result in the Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election was a “disaster”, a leading backbencher says today, as… Peter Edwards 21st December, 2016, 9:32 am
News Christmas poll: shadow cabinet rankings Labour’s shadow cabinet has looked more stable in the months after conference and stepping up its battle to… 21st December, 2016, 8:00 am
Comment Vernon Coaker: Labour has the right message on Brexit but Sleaford by-election shows the challenge of getting it through Labour finishing fourth in a by-election – or any election for that matter – is a disaster. For… Vernon Coaker 21st December, 2016, 7:00 am
News Labour must do more to represent black and Asian voters, says Fabian Society Black and Asian Labour members face discrimination at all levels despite the party’s strong track record on fighting… Emma Bean 20th December, 2016, 4:23 pm