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Satisfaction with democracy is at an all-time low among the British public, according to a report by Cambridge University researchers. This is dire news, but not all that surprising. If recent years have shown anything, it's how distant our…
The English Labour Network has written to every one of Labour's leadership candidates urging them to support its five pledges. Citing the fact that Labour last won the popular vote in England back in 2001, the organisation asked contenders…
Three of the Labour leadership candidates and Jim McMahon took to the stage at the Labour Local Government conference today. Keir Starmer was absent as his mother-in-law is unwell and McMahon stood in for the Camden MP. The hustings was a…
Labour has been out of power nationally for a decade. But we’ve been in power in town halls up and down the country for all of that time. Labour’s national politicians should be hammering on those town hall doors to find out what our…
Whilst Labour has been arguing over Brexit and a range of other issues, it has largely ignored another major political development – and yet it offers a beacon of hope for our party. The election of Labour mayors in big city regions like…
The moment that the exit poll was announced on December 12th will be ingrained in all of our memories for a very long time. Watching hard-working, committed Labour MPs and their staff being unceremoniously defeated as communities that had…
Welcome to local government week on LabourList – a chance for us to showcase, discuss and debate the role, contribution and work of Labour councils and councillors in both power and opposition in the week leading up to Labour Local…
Devolution predictably took up a lot of time in the debate in Wales today with all of the candidates broadly supportive. Frustratingly, specifics on what this would look like were still lacking. Lisa Nandy emphasised that Labour would have…
The Labour leadership contest was already taking shape by the time of Hogmanay celebrations, an occasion when it’s traditional for parties across Britain to struggle their way through the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne. By the time of the Bard’s…
Although the official Labour Party leadership hustings set to be held on Saturday was cancelled, the deputy one went ahead – as did the full Open Labour version on Sunday in Nottingham. Keir Starmer couldn’t make it, but the soft left group…
Labour leadership candidate Keir Starmer is set to call for a new federal structure in the United Kingdom that would aim to deliver a “radical devolution of power”. Under his proposal for a shift away from the “status quo”, a “radical…
The British state needs a "seismic shock" and power should be devolved out of Westminster to "where it belongs", Rebecca Long-Bailey will declare at her leadership campaign launch. Speaking at her event in Manchester on Friday evening, the…
