Remembering John Smith
Today we mark two significant anniversaries: the twentieth anniversary of John Smith’s death and the fifteenth anniversary of the…
Devolution
Raising standards by devolving power and accountability
The Report published last week, recommending how Labour should treat school structures and functions after our return to Government…
Against Labour’s nascent left localism
An internal Labour movement of thinktankers, MPs, journalists, and academics (including LabourList’s own editor, Mark Ferguson) has coalesced…
We must use days like this to build our communities
St George’s Day is popular in Wigan. Scouts and Brownies take to the streets for an annual St.…
Our different identities are what makes the UK work
Last week Alex Salmond told a New York audience that he had no territorial ambitions in the North…
Is the Labour Party campaigning hard enough for the European elections?
In a week that supposedly signalled an end of the Cost of Living Crisis as wages begin to…
Weekly survey: Cost of living, elections and devolution
Average wages are set to rise faster than prices – so is there still a cost of living…
How can Labour make devolution to English cities a reality?
Ed Miliband’s pledge that a Labour Government in 2015 would deliver “the biggest economic devolution of power to…
Labour to introduce regional ministers, announces Dugher
Michael Dugher, Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, has announced that Labour would introduce regional ministers as a…
Full text: Miliband’s speech on regional devolution
In a speech in Birmingham today, Ed Miliband outlined how he’d devolve at least £20 billion of government…
