What is a Deputy Leader for?
There are five big selection contests happening in the Labour Party at the moment. For Leader, Deputy Leader, Leader…
Emma Burnell
Are you now or have you ever been…?
I am struggling at the moment to think of anyone I know who hasn’t recently been called a…
Labour and the Lib Dems: What now?
Today, we will find out who will be the leader of the Lib Dems. Personally, I envy their…
Five key mistakes Miliband made that the next leader must learn from
Over the last couple of weeks I have been writing about the leadership race – how each candidate…
So you’ve been elected leader…
Last week, I laid out the potential paths to victory for the four candidates for Labour leader, setting…
All four leadership candidates commit to 50/50 shadow cabinet gender balance
All four Labour leadership candidates have committed to ensuring they would strike a 50/50 gender balance in the…
How will the leadership race finish? Four paths to victory
This piece is probably going to please precisely no one. These thoughts are not based on any knowledge…
What’s so moral about a crusade?
“This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.” How often have we all heard this from…
A difficult step
Labour are often accused of being the most tribal of the mainstream political parties. For my money, I…
David Goodhart is wrong: it’s not Labour activists who have become disconnected with the country
In a recent, much discussed article David Goodhart makes several keen observations about the disconnection between the Labour Party…
