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History shows us that Labour will need to offer a radical alternative to Conservative austerity if we want to win in 2015. After five years of unpopular coalition government, Britain heads for the polls. In the aftermath of the worst…
If you were young in the 1980s, at school or college, and paying even just a bit of attention, it was clear that something dramatic was happening to the country. It was an angry time, a raucous time. Every Tuesday and Thursday, when…
“Always leave them wanting more.” It’s not entirely clear who said it first, but this has become one of the more popular, if rarely achieved, political clichés. Of all the recent political leaders we might have expected to stand aside with…
30 years ago today, I started work as a trainee library assistant in the Labour party. “Hold the lift boyo” said Neil Kinnock. It was NEC day and Pat Francis, the head librarian was giving me a tour of “Walworth Road”, our then HQ, which…
Alan Milburn, the former Labour minister who now chairs the commission on social mobility and child poverty, has launched an excoriating attack on all three major political parties for failing to face up to the reality of poverty in…
The renowned filmmaker, actor and Labour peer Richard Attenborough has died. He was 90. Attenborough was both a successful director - winning two academy awards for directing Gandhi - and a popular actor, appearing in Jurassic Park, Miracle…
Across Britain tonight lights will be turned off at 10pm to mark the World War One centenary. Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey said upon the declaration of war in 1914: "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit…
The National Policy Forum(NPF) meets this weekend in Milton keynes - here's NPF Chair Angela Eagle's opening speech, in which she invokes the spirit of 1945: It is a great honour to open this meeting of the National Policy Forum at such a…
In 2005, Tony Blair was told by Charles Trevail that some personal polling had been carried out about the then Prime Minister. They had, Trevail said, never seen personal polling like it: there was virtually no indifference. Everyone had a…
Former Home and Education Secretary David Blunkett has announced that he's stepping down as an MP at the next election. Blunkett, 67, told his local Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Labour Party last night that he wouldn't be…
Speech by Dan Jarvis MP, Labour’s lead on the First World War commemorations, to a Labour History Group event in Parliament on ‘Labour & the First World War’: I’d like to start by thanking the Labour History Group for organising tonight’s…
This evening Dan Jarvis MP for Barnsley Central and the Labour lead on WWI commemorations will give a speech in Parliament, calling for more of a focus on how the conflict changed British society. Speaking to the Labour History Group…
