News Uxbridge by-election: What do voters make of Beales, Starmer and the Tories? Today is polling day in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, where Boris Johnson’s resignation as an MP in early… Morgan Jones 20th July, 2023, 8:38 am
Columnist ‘Labour’s pre-election nerves must not prevent vital short-term spending’ It is a summer of discontent. For more than a decade, things in Britain have been going downhill… Andrew Harrop 20th July, 2023, 8:00 am
News Interview: Is Andrew Western parliament’s most YIMBY politician? Andrew Western has a good claim to being the Parliamentary Labour Party’s most committed YIMBY. LabourList talks housing,… Morgan Jones 19th July, 2023, 3:27 pm
Daily email Could spending restraint mean Labour goes all in on reform? Good morning. The debate over Labour’s position on the two-child benefit limit is going precisely nowhere and continues… Morgan Jones 19th July, 2023, 11:09 am
Comment ‘How to make the Lords democratic – but avoid US Senate-style gridlock’ Labour’s rumoured working-age peers plan makes perfect sense, as does abolition of the Lords. However, it could be… Tijs Broeke 19th July, 2023, 9:00 am
News Starmer backs redistribution but warns party must be “tougher” to win power Keir Starmer has declared that the “stand-aside state” cannot cope in the current global climate and argued for… Katie Neame & Tom Belger 18th July, 2023, 5:32 pm
Daily email Two-child limit: Three big questions about Labour’s safety-first strategy If making clear to voters Labour will not reverse the two-child benefit limit was the goal, then even… Tom Belger 18th July, 2023, 12:46 pm
Daily email Will Labour’s benefits stance test party discipline to the (two-child) limit? Good morning. It’s the last week before parliament’s summer recess, but very few eyes are on Westminster as… Morgan Jones 17th July, 2023, 10:45 am
Comment Operation Mid Beds: Inside Labour’s audacious bid for a Tory crown jewel Out on the doorstep in Mid Bedfordshire, two things become quickly apparent. The first is that the voters… Morgan Jones 15th July, 2023, 8:00 am
Comment ‘How Labour’s new deal and industrial strategy help firms and help workers’ The UK has been crying out for a consistent industrial strategy. The Conservatives’ lack of industrial policy has… Justin Madders & Paul Nowak 13th July, 2023, 9:34 am