Labour has eight retirement seats to fill as Steve McCabe joins MPs quitting
Eight more Labour MPs have announced they are standing down at the general election, with Lyn Brown and…
John Spellar
‘Why Labour must oppose the Three-Vodafone merger’
A merger between Vodafone UK and Three UK was announced in June. If the deal goes ahead, Vodafone…
From healthcare to immigration, Britain isn’t working under the Tories
Before Margaret Thatcher’s election victory in 1979, the Tories produced a devastating poster, which read: “LABOUR ISN’T WORKING.”…
Oppose PR? Then let’s hear your positive case for first-past-the-post
Whilst we don’t find John Spellar’s latest broadside against proportional representation (PR) convincing, we welcome his engagement with…
Proportional representation? Bad tactics, bad strategy and bad for Britain
Australian Labor PM Paul Keating used to say that good policy is good politics. Since UK Labour’s battering…
Constitutional reform is not sexy, but it’s key to building a progressive agenda
John Spellar MP recently wrote a piece for LabourList complaining about “constitution-mongering”. It began with the claim that…
Deliver, don’t dither. Labour must drop its obsession with constitutional issues
The pandemic has turned the world upside down in the ways we work and live, and many of…
Labour calls for “rapid review” into 10pm hospitality curfew
Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth has called on the government to carry out a “rapid review” into the effectiveness of…
Covid must be handled with effective risk management, not erratic risk avoidance
COBRA met this week for the first time in about four months. What took so long? This isn’t…
Predatory venture capitalists took over our care homes. This profiteering cannot continue
The shockingly high levels of deaths in our care homes appears to be one of the biggest scandals…
