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There are towns and cities in this country that carry a particular weight of meaning. The Battle of Orgreave, one of the most violent confrontations of the 1984/85 miners’ strike. The Shrewsbury building workers' strikes of 1972, which saw…
Personal text messages sent by Labour's Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP Neil Coyle to Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader of the Labour Party have been revealed by Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund today. The author of new book Left Out…
Today is the 15th anniversary of Mo Mowlam's death. Mo was surely the best Northern Ireland Secretary this country has ever had, and one of the finest ministers to ever grace the Labour Party benches, and yet somehow she is increasingly…
In March 1976, Harold Wilson shocked the world by announcing his resignation as Prime Minister. In an address to the cabinet, he said he was handing over to "the most experienced and talented team in this century". That team was shaped by…
In the week when we celebrate the 75th anniversary of Clem Attlee leading Labour to victory on July 6th, 1945, the party is in as grim a position as it was when Attlee was first elected leader in 1935. A lot rests on whether the newly…
This weekend marks the centenary of a march by blind trade unionists from across the country. Their cause is just as relevant today with only 53.3% of disabled people compared to 81.8% of non-disabled people in work. In 2019 the TUC…
Factionalism has bedevilled Labour since its creation. Repeatedly papered over, factional splits between the left and right within Labour have consistently emerged in response to social, economic and political change. The history of this…
Labour has fewer MPs than at any time since the Second World War. In one sentence, that sums up Jeremy Corbyn’s legacy as Labour leader, and a stocktake of the Corbyn era must therefore find more that was wrong than right. But for a moment…
Under lockdown and looking to fill spare time by reading books about the Labour Party? Below is a list of my recommendations. And before you shout “but I already saw his list of books on Labour First”, this isn’t quite the same one…
Thank you madam deputy speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech in this important debate. I would like to start by paying tribute to my predecessor, Jim Fitzpatrick, for his hard work and for the longevity of his public service. Jim…
I need to write. I have been meaning to write since the general election, but I have been numb with an anger that has left me unable to string a sentence together or make sense of what has happened. The gloom seems unrelenting – there…
I have been blogging for 13 years, so there are certain key posts I can update as history unfolds. This week, I’m revising my tables that try to answer to the vexed question of who are Labour’s most and least successful leaders. I will…
