It’s official: local parties will select their own candidates for next election, says NEC
Labour members will be given the power to select candidates for key marginals, a member of the party’s national…
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Margaret Hodge: Labour needs more women at the top of local government
The lack of women in Westminster is rightly decried. But with local councils spending £94bn of public money…
Confusion as Labour HQ picks male ex-mayor despite hope of all-women shortlist
Labour officials have named a former local mayor in Kent as its candidate in Slough. Activists hailed the…
All-women shortlists are working – and the evidence proves it
I joined the Labour Party because I want a more equal society. That includes equal representation for women…
Halifax selection will be an All Women Shortlist
Earlier today, outgoing Halifax MP Linda Riordan wrote a letter to party General Secretary Iain McNicol (which ended…
It’s a travesty Labour will have just 3 disabled MPs – we need to act now
It’s taken as read that the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) is not as representative as it should be.…
Ann Clwyd selected as candidate for Cynon Valley
Ann Clwyd has been selected as the Labour candidate for Cynon Valley. Clwyd announced she was stepping down…
How do you solve a problem like Austin the attention-seeker?
Last week Austin Mitchell popped up in the Mail on Sunday (perhaps the most virulently anti-Labour paper there…
Stella Creasy vs Austin Mitchell on AWS and women in Parliament
Last night Labour MPs Austin Mitchell and Stella Creasy went head to head on Newsnight over Mitchell’s comments…
Austin Mitchell showed us why people hate politicians
Whilst I was out at the weekend campaigning in Hampstead & Kilburn to get the brilliant Tulip Sadiq…
