‘Blue Labour is an explicit challenge to the neoliberal, capitalist consensus’
Blue Labour continues to garner attention and gain momentum as our party seeks to make sense of the…
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‘Uxbridgitis: If election results are grim, let’s not learn the wrong lessons again’
Labour probably won’t do very well at this week’s local elections. We are on track to lose council…
Runcorn and Helsby: At least 150 Labour MPs visit – but Keir Starmer ain’t one
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has yet to visit Runcorn and Helsby during the by-election campaign, despite some MPs…
Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch, survey claims
Labour could lose more seats from a large-scale defection to the Greens and Liberal Democrats than a similar-scale…
‘Co-op members, vote yes to keep funding the Co-op party’s mission’
At the start of the last decade, before, during, and after my years at university, I made my…
Mayor elections 2025: Poll results breakdown as YouGov predicts four Labour defeats
Labour is forecast to lose all four combined mayoral elections on May 1, according to polling by YouGov.…
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough mayor election: Nik Johnson on why he’s standing down and Anna Smith on knife-edge Labour-Tory fight to replace him
With local elections across parts of England less than a week away, I went to visit Cambridgeshire and…
Local elections expert predicts ‘bad night’ for Labour, with no net seat gains as Reform, Greens and Lib Dems advance
An election expert has predicted a “bad night” for Labour at the 2025 local elections next week, warning…
2025 local council and mayor elections: What’s a good night for Labour?
In the run-up to every set of May elections when there isn’t a simultaneous general election, I write…
‘Caving to pressure for new oil and gas licences won’t win SNP or Reform voters’
Keir Starmer’s Labour gained power on the boldest clean energy manifesto of any British government. Since the election…
St George’s Day: ‘Labour should take on the challenge of appealing to England’
In a recent and quite bizarre argument, Russian-born ‘comic’ Kisin Konstantin declared that English-born Rishi Sunak wasn’t English…
