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The internal Labour elections drew to a close at the start of this month, and when new leader Keir Starmer picked his shadow cabinet he handed a top job to former rival Rebecca Long-Bailey. The MP for Salford and Eccles has moved from her…
Covid-19 has exposed the dysfunction at the heart of the British state after a decade of austerity. That dysfunction has been combined with an extreme right-wing ideology, meaning that we have a government utterly incapable of carrying out…
The Labour Campaign for Council Housing has called for the new Labour leadership to commit to the 2019 manifesto pledge to build 100,000 council homes per year, and to fund this through a £10bn annual grant. In a letter to Keir Starmer…
The past 12 months have been deeply traumatic for all those who look towards the Labour Party. There has been the turmoil and churn in parliament over Brexit, the consequences of which are paused by the coronavirus pandemic but yet to be…
Almost all of the Corbynites have been swept out of the shadow cabinet by new Labour leader Keir Starmer, but the newbies are not media favourites from the right of the party either. Lots of fresh faces have been brought in, mostly from…
Keir Starmer has succeeded in convincing Labour members that the Jeremy Corbyn agenda they continue to support will be also be his own, with the 2017 manifesto the ‘foundation’ of his tenure. I have long argued that the pressure against…
The Labour leadership contest has concluded at a time when the importance of trade unionism has never been more apparent. Faced with the biggest public health crisis in a century, unions have been on the frontline fighting for workers. From…
It is the result that the labour movement has been waiting for since December 12th last year. Yes, it is time for a new Labour leader and deputy leader. The general election result was devastating – there is no doubt about that. But there’s…
Like hundreds of thousands of people, I joined the Labour Party in 2015 to vote for Jeremy Corbyn as leader. His bold and unapologetic belief that rampant inequality and climate chaos weren’t actually inevitable, that another world really…
Before lunchtime tomorrow, we will know who has replaced Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party. The announcement cannot come a moment too soon. With the Conservatives currently enjoying a 25-plus percentage point lead over Labour…
