What Miliband is doing is welcome and necessary – but it is not yet sufficient
Labour keeps making pretty big, pretty good policy announcements but the polls keep narrowing. What do we do?…
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John Smith and the opportunity to serve
I had a soft spot for John Smith ever since one evening at the Edinburgh Festival in 1988…
In the battle of ideas, the Tories cannot win
A year from today we will know whether Labour has succeeded in winning back trust and power in just one…
Don’t look back in anger
“A new dawn has broken, has it not?” These were the words of Tony Blair, shortly after a…
New Labour obituary: this is the modernisers’ Clause Four moment
Yesterday, it was announced that Progress would be dropping their label as “the New Labour pressure group”. This…
LabourList readers divided over European election expectations
The Labour Party is (relatively) becalmed at the moment. Many of you will be out on the doorstep…
90% of LabourList readers back PPCs call for public ownership of the railways
At the weekend, more than 40 Labour PPCs called for rail franchises to be taken back into public…
The Party Election Broadcast I’d like to have seen…
I can’t say I’m a big fan of Labour’s new Party Political Broadcast. I don’t believe the message…
Most voters blame the banks, not Labour, for the crash
A year from the general election Progressive Polling has revisited who voters believe caused the financial crash in…
What does the next year look like for Labour?
With just one year to go until election day, we’ve asked a number of LabourList contributors, thinkers, journalists…
