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My own local party nomination meeting was held last night and went as expected. One member said Keir Starmer was “so wooden” as to be a “posh kebab”, while others countered that the frontrunner has “gravitas”, the “skills to face the media”…
A staggering 580 of 648 constituency Labour parties (CLPs) have now nominated candidates to be the next Labour leader and deputy – more than in any contest before. A few may trickle still in before the Valentine's Day deadline, but not…
I worked in Holloway prison for six years. A number of the women I worked with were ‘foreign nationals’. Some of these women had been trafficked and endured extensive exploitation – but rather than being in the National Referral Mechanism…
Keir Starmer has announced that he will maintain Labour's current commitment to scrap university tuition fees if elected to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as the next party leader. The pledge is one of ten promises that the MP for Holborn and St…
London is my home. It’s where I was born and raised, after my parents fled South Africa in the 1970s. My mother believed that London would provide her working opportunities not available to her as a young black woman with ambition. My…
A new poll released by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft into the reasons why Labour lost the last election has revealed the extent of the challenge facing the party. The research revealed that defectors from Labour thought the top reasons for the…
"When will black lives matter once again?" This was the challenge from David Lammy yesterday as he confronted the government on plans to deport a plane full of people before having published the outcome of the 'lessons learned' review into…
"This is the dawn of a new era," declared Boris Johnson an hour before Brexit. He has exploited the opportunity of Brexit and realigned British politics. The Conservatives have political domination but not yet hegemony. It took Margaret…
If the Iowa caucus results that threw the US Democratic Party presidential primaries into chaos weren’t enough of a political rollercoaster for you, we now have the historic outcome of the 2020 Irish general election. It was not Brexit but…
Ridge on Sunday Labour deputy leadership candidate Dawn Butler hit headlines for appearing to suggest that the decision by the Conservatives not to nominate John Bercow – the former Speaker accused of bullying – for a peerage constitutes "a…
