‘If Labour can’t spend more, here’s how we spend better to fix council budgets’
On Monday, Angela Rayner described the government’s announcement of £600m of new emergency local authority funding as a…
John Denham
‘Labour must reject assumptions about Englishness and promote its inclusivity’
An enduring myth about national identity in England – not least on the left – is that Britishness…
‘To tackle hate and division, Labour must reflect on what multiculturalism means’
The former Home Secretary’s divisive rhetoric will rightly get much of the blame for drawing far right activists…
Conference morning roundup: Rule change passes ahead of Reeves’ speech
Good morning. It’s the 2nd full day of Labour Party conference here in Liverpool, and the proceedings will…
‘Ministers like control, but Labour must offer radical, irreversible devolution’
Labour has promised a ‘Take Back Control Bill’ in the first King’s Speech. Aimed at England, it must…
‘To succeed, Labour’s devolution agenda must be seen as a constitutional project’
Keir Starmer has committed a future Labour government to undertaking a “huge shift of power and control out…
‘Why and how Labour should embrace a “new levelling up” agenda’
Labour has carefully avoided mentioning ‘levelling up’ in the five missions Sir Keir Starmer has outlined this year.…
St George’s Day: Labour can’t ‘take back control’ without devolving English government
On another St George’s Day, England’s government is creeping onto the agenda. It is not English identity that…
I resigned over Iraq. Labour needs to work harder to learn its lessons
Twenty years on, Labour’s discussion of the Iraq War is curious and worrying in equal measure. The disaster…
Brown’s reforms do not go far enough. We must embrace a more radical vision
As Labour consults the public about the distribution of power, the real debate must be whether the Brown…
