Luke Akehurst: Talk of deselecting MPs is unhelpful in the extreme
“Deselection” was a word that was very much in vogue in the Labour Party in the early 1980s…
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Luke Akehurst: The first big battle for the new leader will take place at conference
It’s the middle of a leadership election but Labour’s rival wings are already focussed on what happens when…
NEC vote was not a “runaway left victory”, leading centrist tells backers
The triumph of the left slate in elections to Labour’s ruling body has not handed complete control to…
Luke Akehurst: We had an election-winning “social movement” 20 years ago – it was called the Labour Party
Twenty years ago I was part of what would now be called a “social movement”. It grew out…
Luke Akehurst: Do we choose survival or a descent into sectarian in-fighting?
This is a very strange leadership election. It isn’t really a choice about politics, but more one about…
Let’s scrap the registered supporters scheme: if you want to vote for the leader then you should simply join the party
Whoever wins, this has to be the last time Labour uses the disastrous Leadership election system brought in…
Labour’s NEC race: final CLP nominations
Candidates running for Constituency Labour Party positions on Labour’s National Executive Committee must receive nominations from their home…
Luke Akehurst: NEC has closed loopholes that turned last year’s contest into a lop-sided stacking exercise
So now we know Jeremy Corbyn will be on the ballot to defend his position as Leader. By…
Luke Akehurst: NEC analysis shows Momentum thriving in unwinnable seats
There’s another internal election going on – for six seats on Labour’s national executive committee representing CLPs. These…
Luke Akehurst: We must recruit hundreds of thousands of mainstream members to defeat the far left
It has been a terrible few weeks for centre-left politics in the UK, with the horrific murder of…
