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Frank Dobson, the former Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras and Health Secretary, has died aged 79. In a statement, the Labour veteran's family said: "The Dobson family is sad to announce the death of Frank Dobson, former MP for Holborn…
"Ye are many – they are few!" It is fitting that Labour’s slogan for the likely 2019 general election – for the many, not the few – comes from a Percy Shelley poem about the Peterloo massacre. 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of this bloody…
MPs are back in their constituencies, taking a break from Brexit rows in the Commons during parliamentary recess. The news is slower than it has been over the last few months, no longer moving at a breakneck pace. And I’m also only briefly…
For a 25% discount on David Kogan's Protest and Power: the Battle for the Labour Party, order from Bloomsbury.com and quote LABOURLIST25 at the checkout. LabourList will get £1 for every copy bought using this code. Revisiting the scene of…
The standard story about identity politics is that when new social movements burst onto the scene in the late 1960s and 1970s, identity politics fractured class politics, bringing huge problems for the Labour Party. At first, the…
Dennis Skinner, also known as the Beast of Bolsover, is the longest continuously serving MP in the House of Commons. He has represented his constituency since 1970. Labour activists and parliamentary colleagues have been celebrating his…
"A defiant man of the left." That was how Walton's Dan Carden recently described Eric Heffer, the constituency's longest-serving MP, at the first ever memorial lecture in his name. In front of more than 100 Labour members and supporters at…
To mark the tenth anniversary of LabourList today, I've drawn up a list of the most popular comment pieces in each of the last ten years. Unsurprisingly, the articles with the highest number of page views are often penned by those who went…
The last Labour government brought about unprecedented constitutional reform. Yet it left England virtually unchanged. If we are not careful, the next government will do the same. Between 1997 and 2010, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland…
The recent revelations about complicity in human rights abuses confirms that the Blair legacy is toxic. Turning a blind eye to American moves in the 'War on Terror' is not confined to any one government, but the sense that the Blair regime…
70 years old this week, the NHS is Britain’s greatest invention and the best symbol of what we stand for as a country. It is compassion in action, care with a human face and solidarity writ large and the very idea of sharing written into…
The 70th anniversary of our National Health Service has, quite rightly, attracted a great deal of national attention. Organisations have been marking the occasion in different ways. As chair of the Aneurin Bevan Society, I have a special…
