Let's help you find what you're looking for. Enter a keyword or try a different search.
Keir Starmer can fairly be described as the frontrunner in Labour's leadership contest. As well as gaining the endorsements of UNISON, Usdaw and Community trade unions, plus a number of affiliate organisations, he has won support from 311…
"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…
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…
Labour’s mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is now seeking a mandate for a crucial second term, and is drawing on the experience and knowledge of members, affiliates, councillors and supporters in shaping the manifesto that we will fight the…
The House of Lords is an almost all-appointed upper chamber, whose members are generally nominated by the two main political parties. Once appointed, peers sit for life but can then attend more or less whenever they wish, never facing…
It’s not been easy as a council leader over the past four and a half years, supposedly forming part of the wider Labour Party 'family'. And it was in this difficult context that the Labour Party’s 2017 democracy review spewed out a number…
The Labour Local Government conference taking place in Nottingham today will hear from all four of the party leadership candidates at another hustings event. But this is a hustings with a difference. An audience of councillors and mayors…
As an Association of Labour Councillors executive member, the most common question I am asked is: "What exactly do we get for our money?". It refers to the £2m handed over every year via the councillor levy. One of the reasons the ALC was…
When the polls closed in May 2015, I got into my car to drive to the count, buoyant and excited. I was intensely proud of the campaign we had run in Cheshire West and Chester. We were disciplined, targeted ruthlessly, and had a clear…
Whilst Labour has been arguing over Brexit and a range of other issues, it has largely ignored another major political development – and yet it offers a beacon of hope for our party. The election of Labour mayors in big city regions like…
