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"Brexit is massive, but a lot of that is linked to lack of trust." That was the message from Labour's candidate in the target seat of Reading West when LabourList visited on a wet and windy Saturday afternoon. "A lot of it is: there was a…

Today a group of Labour MPs elected in 2017 are calling for sweeping parliamentary reforms that would see proxy voting introduced, backbenchers empowered in the legislation process and the political culture in Westminster “shaken up”. In…

There’s no sign of Carolyn Harris when I arrive at St Botolph’s church next to Aldgate station, but I head uncertainly towards a group of people who look like they’re ready to walk around East London for a couple of hours. I’m here because…

Over the last six years Scottish politics hasn’t been a place for the faint-hearted. The election of a majority SNP government in 2011 thrust constitutional politics to the top of the British political agenda. The following years were…

Gordon Aikman was propelled into the media when he was tragically diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 29 during the Scottish independence referendum. Gordon served as the No campaign's director of research when his hands…

My Political Race is an unlikely tale. It’s a story about my time on the political frontline as a Labour MP and a Minister. But more importantly it’s a story about people who are like me, and quite likely people who are like you too…

“Labour women will have the last laugh,” Harriet Harman declares as we ride the pink bus from Bedford to Cambridge. The bus has been mocked as patronising in the national media and even described in this way LabourList. But Harman is…

Luciana Berger picked me up from Liverpool Lime Street station on a Friday morning in her little car. It’s spotless (it turns out it’s been cleaned before I arrived. I feel honoured). Berger has had the car for years, she explains as we…