Comment ‘The reset with the EU must be ambitious if we are to meet our economic, security and other objectives’ The UK-EU summit in London on 19 May will at last give us an indication of how ambitious… Richard Corbett 16th May, 2025, 3:00 pm
News Interview: Usdaw’s new first female leader on wealth taxes, workplace AI and holding Labour’s feet to the fire Usdaw’s general secretary-elect Joanne Thomas has called on the government to back a wealth tax and pledged to… Daniel Green 15th May, 2025, 12:00 am
Analysis Local elections: Reform took four times more Labour seats than other parties Reform UK gained more than four times the number of council seats from Labour than other parties combined… Daniel Green 13th May, 2025, 11:54 am
Comment ‘Scrapping social care worker visas is a reasonable evidence-based move’ Today’s attacks on Labour for scrapping care worker visas are over-blown. Yvette Cooper and Wes Streeting have taken… Andrew Harrop 12th May, 2025, 10:26 am
Comment ‘Australia’s election shows how compulsory voting rewards progressive governments that deliver’ In last Saturday’s Australian election, Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) bucked the global anti-incumbency trend,… David Klemperer 10th May, 2025, 6:00 am
News Trans Labour councillor resigns from party over ‘throwing trans people under the bus’ A trans Labour councillor has resigned from the party, accusing it of having “thrown transgender people under the… Luke O'Reilly 9th May, 2025, 9:23 am
News Labour MPs slam disabled benefit cuts as ‘impossible to support’: Letter and list of rebels in full Dozens of Labour MPs have said that the government’s plans to cut disability benefit are “impossible to support”… Daniel Green 8th May, 2025, 3:00 pm
Comment ‘Candidate selection delays cost Labour in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’ Labour’s success depends on early and visible campaigning. In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, delays in candidate selection cost us… David Landon Cole 8th May, 2025, 2:26 pm
News MS warns of ‘simmering discontent’ with Westminster as Labour sees poll slump one year out from Senedd election A Labour member of the Senedd has said there is a “growing sense” that the UK government is… Daniel Green 7th May, 2025, 6:00 am
News ‘Barking was like the Red Wall’: Margaret Hodge on the lessons for fighting Reform from beating the BNP 15 years ago today On an otherwise disappointing night 15 years ago, Labour activists celebrated in east London as the British National… Daniel Green 7th May, 2025, 5:00 am