The battlefield in 2020
Last week I looked at the detail behind the General Election results to see what the lessons were…
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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…
Labour reactions to the death of Charles Kennedy
Labour politicians have joined tributes to Charles Kennedy, who died at his home yesterday aged 55. Harriet Harman,…
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…
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…
Andy Burnham surpasses 35 endorsement mark with backing from new MPs
Andy Burnham, one of the four people in the running to be the next Labour leader, is the…
Londoners need us to come together to avert this disaster
What do Londoners need? They need a solution to the housing crisis. But instead, they are getting a…
“We cannot waste this defeat” – Labour launch taskforce to find out why they lost the election
Harriet Harman, Interim Leader of the Labour Party, has launched a ‘Learning the Lessons from Defeat’ Taskforce. The…
Labour has a self-inflicted gene pool problem
The Labour leadership hopefuls represent what Diane Abbott last week called a ‘spadocracy’. Three of the four declared…
Yvette Cooper claims Labour were too “squeamish” when it came to talking about immigration
Last night in an interview on BBC Newsnight, Yvette Cooper claimed Labour was “squeamish” when it came to…
