How Labour’s vote leapt in the seats Corbyn visited in Election 17
No sooner had Theresa May stood outside Number 10 on 18 April to announce a snap general election…
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How will we win? Five easy pieces for Labour to focus on over the summer
Labour came an awful lot closer to government in June 8’s vote than in 2015, or in 2010,…
Hands up, it wasn’t Granita — and I was once a Trot: Blair lifts lid on the Brown deal and a student dalliance with far left
Tony Blair has admitted he was briefly a “Trot” in his student days and lifted the lid on…
Former Blair aide and Owen Jones slap down calls for new centrist party
An ex-Labour cabinet minister has led a chorus of left-wing voices speaking out against the formation of a…
If Labour is to govern again then it must defend its response to the financial crisis
For as long as there is a debate about the financial crisis then there must be voices willing…
‘We’re going to run out of money in the afternoon’: 10 years on, Alistair Darling remembers the onset of the great crash
Alistair Darling has defended the actions of the last Labour government at the height of the banking crisis…
Activist effort to oust Watson would be dangerous, divisive – and doomed
Peace has broken out across Labour – or some of it. After another election defeat, despite a campaign…
Tory turmoil over public sector pay freeze shows they are as out of touch as Norman Lamont was three decades ago
Phillip Hammond has refused to increase the one per cent ceiling for public sector wages. He claims to…
Luke Akehurst: From Attlee to Blair – Labour’s most successful leaders and where Corbyn might fit in
I have been blogging for 11 years so there are certain key posts I can update as history…
Christian Wolmar: Tower tragedy must mark a turning point for council cuts
The expression “historic moment” is overused but there is little doubt that we are living through one. It…
