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Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Today it was announced that the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) will be cut from £100 to £2. In agreeing to the change, the government…
More than a week on from the local election result, it’s time we focussed on what Labour does next – but first, there are a few things we need to establish. What happened? The immediate negativity narrative following Labour’s result was…
Some weeks ago, a friend texted to say there were rumours about my local MP, Heidi Alexander, resigning as the MP for Lewisham East. While unconfirmed, they said she would soon be leaving to join Sadiq Khan at City Hall. The next day…
The last 12 months have been very busy for Labour’s National Executive Committee. The sudden general election meant the years of work that usually go into selecting candidates and writing a manifesto had to be completed in weeks. We were…
Today the government saw off Labour's bid to implement the second part of the Leveson inquiry into press standards. An amendment to the Data Protection Bill, tabled by a cross-party group of MPs and backed by the Labour Party, was narrowly…
What would be a good night for Labour? On eve of poll, I look at what Labour can reasonably expect to win at this round of local elections, and where our hopes should lie. How is Labour’s local election campaign going? A week before polling…
Local elections are fast approaching and this week much of the spotlight is on Trafford - my local authority. We’re fighting hard here to win the last remaining Tory council in Greater Manchester. Outsourcing and privatisation of services…
Ann Black writes for LabourList as the newly elected chair of the National Policy Forum. What is the National Policy Forum, and why does it matter? Good questions, and ones that 95 per cent of members cannot answer. Twenty years after its…
Today National Executive Committee member and former disputes panel chair Ann Black was elected as chair of Labour's National Policy Forum. Black won 100 votes, beating George McManus, who received 65, with a turnout of 83 per cent…
The Labour Party has an enormous lead amongst 18 to 30 year olds, and as a young activist, I’m proud to see my generation united in the hope of a Labour government. After all, it’s young people who’ve been hardest hit by eight years of…
