‘From referee to coach – Labour needs a new theory of what it’s for’
I knocked on doors in Gosport in November 2024. The winter fuel payment decision was fresh and the…
Keir Starmer
Ben Cooper column: ‘Labour must intervene to tackle the causes of the cost of living crisis’
For more than half a decade, Britain has been stuck in a cost-of-living crisis. Life’s essentials have become…
Labour launch major attack ad campaign exposing Reform’s record
A new Labour attack ad aims to expose Reform UK and Nigel Farage’s “naked attempts to hoodwink working…
‘It is time for the Lords Spiritual to leave the House of Lords’
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill fulfils a manifesto promise of constitutional reform and modernisation. Yet the…
‘MattGPT and Me’
As some of you may have seen, it has not been a good week for ReformUK’s failed Gorton…
Fight for London begins as Labour launch local election campaigns across England
Campaigning is officially underway for Labour across England, following Keir Starmer’s local election launch speech in Wolverhampton. Starmer…
Hull East MP Karl Turner has Labour whip suspended after jury reform criticism
Hull East MP Karl Turner has had the Labour whip suspended after his outspoken criticism of the government’s…
‘Tom Belger column: ‘Starmerism’s officially empty. It’s why he won but may be why he’s done’
An empty taxi drew up, and out stepped Keir Starmer. The old gag about Clement Attlee is far…
£4bn NHS investment, £2 bus fares and 100,000 new homes: Welsh Labour’s manifesto summarised
First Minister Eluned Morgan has promised a “new chapter” for Wales with a “new generation of Labour politicians”…
‘What Labour can learn from Denmark’s ‘pigs and water’ election?’
On 24th March, the Danes went to the polls, but no clear winner emerged. While it looks like…
