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John Healey has announced that he is withdrawing from the deputy leader race. To make it through to the next round of the contest, candidates need 35 nominations from fellow MPs. Healey currently has 20 nominations, the most of those…
In September 2010 I sent an open memo on the real 'middle Britain' to each of Labour's then candidates for Leader. And LabourList published it. Today I am reissuing my memo, word-for-word as it was five years ago with only the figures…
John Healey is joining the race to become Labour's deputy leader, making him the 7th MP to do so. Healey, who was a housing minister under Gordon Brown, made this announcement in an article in the Guardian. He said that he hadn't planned on…
This critical period we have to choose the next person to lead our party into government in 2020 is being dogged by the question we should have dealt with decisively years ago – 'Did Labour spend too much?'. It’s one of the first questions…
We’ve all been shocked to see the Tories emerge from the Election with an outright majority, and rightly fearful of what unfettered Tory government will mean to many of the people who desperately wanted Labour to win through. As in 2010 all…
This week in the Commons we watched local government ministers try to defend their decision to target government funding cuts on the most deprived council areas so that over this Parliament councils serving the ten most deprived areas will…
Following the news this week that Labour have set up a unit designed specifically to deal with the potential of losing votes to the Green Party, it has been revealed that a similar operation is in place to tackle UKIP. Yvette Cooper, John…
Today the Parliamentary Labour Party were electing their members of the National Executive Committee (NEC). Former Deputy Leader Margaret Beckett had already been elected unopposed, leaving three candidates for two places. The results were…
As President Obama said recently, inequality is the ‘defining challenge of our time’. But if we are serious about translating this conviction into action, then we need more attention on the way people’s prospects are shaped by the places…
Reform of the civil service may seem a long way down the list of priorities for the next Labour government. There are plenty of pressing concerns: jobs, growth, pensions or getting the NHS back on its feet. Yet I believe this is the time to…
The second round of negotiations concludes today in Brussels for a trade deal between the European Union and the United States. In the UK, interest in the deal is stirring and this week the CBI president called it a “global economic…
It’s been an 18-month fight but this week the Department for Work and Pensions agreed to stop using rip-off rate phone lines, including for the beleaguered Universal Credit. Just a few months ago, Iain Duncan Smith was dismissing my…
