Nearly 50 of Labour’s top targets seats will use all-women shortlists
Candidates for nearly 50 of Labour’s top 76 target seats will be picked from all-women shortlists, the party’s…
Local government
Naushabah Khan: Rise in rough sleeping underlines human cost of austerity
A damming report published this week by the National Audit Office (NAO), the public spending watchdog, showed a…
Weekly survey: Sarah Champion, women in local government and Brexit
Last week saw a wave of controversy over an article by Sarah Champion in The Sun in which…
Labour’s shortfall in women councillors revealed in new report
More than 3,000 more women councillors must be elected if England is to achieve a gender balance in…
John Denham: We are the patriotic party. Our new network will give England a voice
Labour has to win England. Despite our strength in Wales, and welcome recovery in Scotland, Labour must aim…
Local Labour parties must win back right to pick local candidates, says NEC member
A prominent official on Labour’s ruling body has called on the party to return to open selections for…
Bean over Britain: Lucas on Labour, tribalism and how spending cuts hit locally
Labour has held Wrexham since before the second world war but the threat of a regressive alliance could see…
How we are fighting to keep a Labour fortress safe amid a sea of Tory blue
This weekend I joined the Labour campaign trail in Exeter, where Labour incumbent Ben Bradshaw is defending a…
Weekly survey: Poll ratings, May’s u-turn and doing deals with the Tories
With the gap between Labour and the Tories narrowing in polls published over the weekend, we ask will…
Labour officials veto councillors’ extraordinary coalition deal with the Tories
Labour’s high command has threatened to suspend the councillors who stunned members by striking a deal with the Tories…
