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Denis Healey passed away today, aged 98. He was a giant of Labour politics, sitting in Parliament for 62 years until his death, having become a peer in 1992. He once told a reporter: "A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of…
Denis Healey, who served the Labour Party as both Chancellor and deputy leader, has died at the age of 98. He was an MP for forty years, having being elected as the member for Leeds South East in 1952 and Leeds East in 1955, and standing…
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of Labour's first leader Keir Hardie today, LabourList is publishing a series of Hardie's writings, introduced by Blair McDougall. Hardie became very close to the Pankhurst’s (almost…
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of Labour's first leader Keir Hardie today, LabourList is publishing a series of Hardie's writings, introduced by Blair McDougall. Hardie is thought of as the cloth-capped firebrand in the…
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of Labour's first leader Keir Hardie today, LabourList is publishing a series of Hardie's writings, introduced by Blair McDougall. Hardie’s attitude to socialism is inconsistent over the…
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of Labour's first leader Keir Hardie today, LabourList is publishing a series of Hardie's writings, introduced by Blair McDougall. When Hardie was blacklisted by mine owners they created…
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of Labour's first leader Keir Hardie today, LabourList is publishing a series of Hardie's writings, introduced by Blair McDougall. While he had some idyllic early memories of growing up in…
The overwhelming victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the leadership election earlier this month has prompted Progress, originally set up in the 1990s as a pro-New Labour project, to declare that "the era of New Labour is over" in a new editorial…
Very interesting that Jon Cruddas should evoke the spirit of William Cobbett, the great radical and journalist, in his recent lecture to the Mile End Institute. Cobbett was the kind of English patriot whose love of his country was never…
This is the full text of Jon Cruddas' lecture at the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London this evening. Thank you for inviting me here to talk about England and the Labour Party. Thank you Mike for organising it. Big…
The Spirit of '45 lives on - Clement Attlee was the Labour Party's greatest ever leader, according to LabourList readers. In our survey this week, which also found that readers feel they have most to fear from an Osborne-led Tory Party, we…
In just under two weeks we will find out who Labour's next leader will be. There's been plenty of discussion about who's the best person to succeed Ed Miliband, so we thought it was a good time to give our readers a brief reprieve from…
