What was in John Healey’s Budget?
Chancellor John Healey has delivered his first Budget to the House of Commons. It showed some progress on…
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A View from Behind the Front Line
As numerous column inches are currently given to the ongoing electoral battle in London and other key councils…
Meeting Tweeting
It’s a packed-out hall on a spring evening. Almost two hundred Labour members have gathered to hear the…
Southern Comfort – Crawley and Reigate
Back in the south-east and Crawley is my first stop to launch Labour’s Local Election campaign. I have…
Why Labour should stick with the “opt-out” for union members
As an ex-General Secretary of the Labour Party, Peter Watt is insightful and thoughtful on the challenge of…
What Lord Ahmed actually said
Earlier this week Lord Ahmed was suspended from the Labour Party over claims that he had offered a…
Lucy Powell selected as Manchester Central candidate
Tonight Manchester Central CLP selected their candidate for the November by-election. Around 200 members (just short of fifty…
Manchester Central candidates in their own words
Tonight Manchester Central party members will be meeting to quiz the four shortlisted candidates for the upcoming by-election,…
What price loyalty?
“There’s only one thing I value and that’s loyalty. And without it, you’re nothing.” Film fanatics like myself…
Scottish Labour needs a strategy as sophisticated as Scots themselves
Since Scottish Labour’s change of leadership in December, our ability to engage in the big issues beyond the…
Boris retains poll lead – but 78% believe he is Mayor for the rich
The latest YouGov poll on the London Mayoral race has Ken Livingstone trailing Boris Johnson by six percent…
