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Labour has devised a new campaign message for the local and regional elections in May. “Standing up for you” is a simple, bold message which is potentially memorable. However it also demonstrates the underlying challenge facing Labour as a…
In this Brexit row, the dead-end rhetoric of futile nationalism is ruining our country. It is up to us to resist it. What is the point of Labour in this fight? It’s time for us to be clear. We are a patriotic bunch of people. We think that…
The time has come to put down a clear marker amidst the confusion and uncertainty of British politics. This uncertainty deepened yesterday when Nicola Sturgeon committed to holding a second referendum on Scottish independence, even though…
Nicola Sturgeon has done what many of us feared and declared a second independence referendum for Scotland. Today the first minister said she would ask the Holyrood parliament to vote next week for a referendum, which would be held…
Figures from across the labour movement have joined a wave of criticism of Nicola Sturgeon after she announced plans to seek a second referendum on Scottish independence fewer than three years after the previous "once in a generation" vote…
Chuka Umunna’s essay The Labour Alternative is the most comprehensive account of Labour’s purpose since Jon Cruddas’ 2013 speech on earning and belonging. Building on Jon’s idea that a Labour politics needs to start with people and place…
It's difficult for progressives not to despair at the current state of the world. A hard Brexit is in the offing. Trump is now firmly ensconced in the White House and wreaking global havoc. And far right politics continue to proliferate on…
by Jessica Toale and Katharina Klebba Future generations may well mark 2017 as the year that the foreign policy landscape irrevocably changed. This month’s vote on article 50 will launch the UK into at least two years' worth of negotiation…
The importance of Stoke central's by-election is lost on no-one in Labour's campaign. It's a vote in the middle of a parliament, in an historically safe seat but with the primary challenge coming from UKIP, at a time when Labour is…
This is the full text of the speech Tony Blair gave today on Brexit. “I want to be explicit. Yes, the British people voted to leave Europe. And I agree the will of the people should prevail. I accept right now there is no widespread…
