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The words of songwriter Joe Hill “don’t mourn, organise” may have been used countless times in these last few days, but they could not be closer to the current task at hand. When it comes to our defeat at the polls last week, reflection and…
Like many members, I have been in a fog of disappointment for the last few days. Friends and colleagues have lost their jobs, and millions of people who desperately need a Labour government are consigned to many more years of Tory misery…
Some people are saying we need a long period of reflection to understand what went wrong in the general election and how we got our worst result in terms of seats since 1935. We need everyone in the party to understand why we lost, and act…
One would not normally expect that just two days after a historic defeat, over 100 people would turn up to discuss what should be next for the Labour left in a comradely and positive way. But this is exactly what happened on Saturday, at…
LabourList readers back Rebecca Long-Bailey as the next Labour Party leader and Angela Rayner as the next Labour deputy leader, our post-election survey has found. Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that he will be stepping down as leader as soon…
When Labour lost the 2015 general election, Margaret Beckett was asked by the national executive committee (NEC) to conduct an inquiry into our defeat. Her report identified four reasons why we lost: a failure to build trust on the economy…
As Labour digests its election defeat, it is right to take time to reflect and to analyse. Sadly, some are already trying to play a blame game and point the finger at our Brexit policy, perhaps to avoid other factors being blamed. Some…
In a political system dominated by lies, the most damaging are the ones we tell ourselves. Within minutes of Thursday’s exit poll predicting Labour’s routing, two explanations were ready to go. The first is that Labour is too left-wing. The…
In the 2017 general election, Labour achieved the biggest increase in vote share of any political party since 1945. As I am writing this, according to the exit poll Labour is on course to win only 191 seats in this election. This would be…
Jeremy Corbyn went on a 500-mile journey yesterday – and not by private plane à la Boris Johnson, I should note. The Labour leader has visited around 85 constituencies during this general election campaign, he told the party’s eve of poll…
