Campaigning with Owen Jones in Mansfield – my first time on the Labour doorstep
I’m Matt, from Mansfield, and I study Politics at the University of Leeds. I recently went canvassing on…
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Landslide win for Momentum candidate selected in Mansfield
A Momentum-backed councillor has won by a landslide in the key target seat of Mansfield to become Labour’s…
Momentum campaign aims to unseat Tory youth tsar in Mansfield
Tory MPs including James Cleverly, Andrew Bridgen and Ben Bradley took to Twitter over the weekend to express their…
Selection update: who will be Labour’s candidate in Mansfield?
Ahead of the hustings on Friday, when the Mansfield selection race will come to a conclusion, let’s take…
Labour activists target Ken Clarke as new wave of target seat selections open
Selection contests have opened for a series of Labour target seats around England. Activists in marginals in London…
Labour drama poses centre-ground lessons that must be heard beyond the theatre
“I got involved in politics to find the vaccine not put plasters on problems” says the fictional New…
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…
The six seats Labour lost on June 8 – and every one of them in a Brexit town
There were many positives for Labour on June 8, as it posted a net gain of 30 MPs, but…
How the generational gap has overtaken class when people decide how to vote
For decades it has been believed that social class was the key determinant behind the outcome of a…
If May moves away from austerity then it is because of Corbyn’s message of hope
Fighting for her political life, Theresa May reportedly told her shrunken band of MPs that “austerity is over”. Deep…
