News Abbott urges Starmer to restore whip and slams Speaker after PMQs snub Suspended Labour MP Diane Abbott has urged Labour leader Keir Starmer to restore the whip in the wake… Daniel Green 13th March, 2024, 3:59 pm
Israel Palestine Unions hit back at calls for MPs and unions to cut ties with Palestine Solidarity Campaign Nine trade unions have called on the government, Labour and other political parties to reject a proposal to… Daniel Green & Tom Belger 12th March, 2024, 10:19 am
speech Budget 2024: Read Keir Starmer speech in full attacking Tory ‘Chuckle Brothers of decline’ This is a copy of Labour leader Keir Starmer’s 2024 Budget speech as written (rather than delivered) for… Keir Starmer 6th March, 2024, 3:05 pm
speech Budget 2024: What is Labour’s stance on key Tory claims and policies? Labour leader Keir Starmer has called Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s 2024 Budget the “last desperate act of a party… Tom Belger 6th March, 2024, 12:35 pm
Comment ‘Labour’s poll lead hides a base split on net zero, immigration and trans rights’ That Labour will win the next election is, as political predictions go, something of a safe bet. With… Lachlan Rurlander 6th March, 2024, 7:00 am
Comment ‘Labour needs more excitement and hope to motivate voters – look at 1997’ Speaking recently Claire Ainsley, Labour’s former Policy Director whose seminal book “The New Working Class” identified the voters… Denis MacShane 3rd March, 2024, 7:00 am
Comment ‘Workers’ pay relies on business success – Labour must be comfortable with it’ “It’s not 1997 anymore,” was a phrase regularly heard by those of us who have spent much of… Adrian McMenamin 2nd March, 2024, 8:00 am
News Changing face of Labour: 2 in 5 current supporters didn’t back the party in 2019 Two in five voters who say they now back Labour did not vote for the party in 2019,… Tom Belger 27th February, 2024, 9:20 am
Book review Cruddas book review: ‘Intriguing spin on party tradition, but a pamphlet would do’ Jon Cruddas has written a book. It’s titled A Century of Labour, and it aims to trace the… Morgan Jones 25th February, 2024, 9:00 am
Comment ‘Labour will put country before party with our five national missions’ A year ago today, Keir Starmer set out a bold, new plan for mission government. Five ambitious, long… Ellie Reeves 23rd February, 2024, 9:53 am