Michael Dugher: Labour must win big in May and show we are listening to voters
At the recent meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), MPs were reminded by Labour’s campaign chief, Jon Trickett, that…
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Labour must fight the criminalisation of homelessness
Over the last year homelessness has soared by a staggering 30 per cent. Within the last five…
Labour must not duck the big issues in the EU referendum
Tristram Hunt MP chaired this week’s meeting of Labour for the Common Good group in Parliament – this is…
Coaker: Taking on Farage’s cheap populism is key to this referendum
On Tuesday, I was in Belfast to debate with Nigel Farage. An audience of over 200 hundred mainly…
Osborne’s chaos on housing harms the vulnerable
This week the Government sneaked out a statement admitting that George Osborne’s crude cuts to housing benefit for people…
The tax credit cut that Osborne sneaked through
It would have been impossible to miss the furore last year regarding George Osborne’s proposed changes to tax…
Ian Austin: Calling Israel an “apartheid state” is a barrier to peace
It’s extraordinary to think it’s been 25 years since millions of us sat transfixed by live footage of…
PMQs Verdict: Corbyn isn’t flash – but Cameron is still Flashman
Jeremy Corbyn had his tie up done up, yet his suit may still have fallen below the high…
Forget the hype, here is the reality of Labour’s local election performance in the Corbyn era
Back in December I compiled a review of all the local authority by-election results since Jeremy Corbyn’s election…
Labour must find a way to work together
It was a “poisonous atmosphere” at the Young Labour conference this weekend, according to reports. Infighting, it seemed,…
