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LabourList readers think party members should be given a greater say in what policies are presented to the electorate next year - but don't know how to get involved in the process to do so. Our weekly survey asked if you were going to take…
Forward not Back was the inelegant slogan that helped Labour limp to victory in the 2005 General Election. Inelegant, but people broadly understood it. In the next few weeks, scarcely noticed outside Westminster, positions will begin to be…
Jon Cruddas was summoned to a "rail summit" this lunchtime, union sources have told LabourList, as the debate within the party over the size of Labour's electoral offer intensifies. Today's summit comes as the party begins to prepare for…
This is the latest blog focusing on Labour’s democratic policy making process, Agenda 2015. You can read last week’s blog on the Better Politics paper here. It’s difficult to understate the pace of change and the scale of the challenge…
Young people have been some of the hardest hit by the Coalition's cuts. Tuition fees trebled, the Future Jobs Fund abolished, EMA scrapped and destructive higher education cuts. If the UK's young unemployed formed one dole queue, it would…
Another miserably cold GC meeting on a Monday night in the late 90’s, the secretary reads out some standard resolutions condemning the party leadership and some round-robin letters from head office… “They are seeking nominations for…
Today is the start of a process that will result in the manifesto the next Labour government will implement in office. The launch of the 8 National Policy Forum Final Year Documents – the framework for discussion at an NPF meeting in July…
Today's publications of the Labour Party’s final year policy documents opens up a wide range of issues for debate and decision by the whole Party. Amendments can be offered by affiliates and CLPs by June 13th. The National Policy Forum on…
The Labour Party has more members than any other political party in the UK. In fact, according to Hansard we have more members than the Tories and the Lib Dems put together. Unlike these parties we have strength in Local Government all over…
Today we are publishing Labour’s final year policy consultation documents which will ultimately become Labour’s policy programme and the foundation for our offer to the electorate in 2015. We all know the damage that this Government is…
"I'm a democrat so I always believe that the public are right even if they give me a great big raspberry. And if you don't like what they're telling you, you should listen even more closely". – Angle Eagle According to the Chinese calendar…
There is less than 18 months to go until the general election. Up and down the country we’re pounding pavements, racking up the doorstep conversations, and supporting community campaigns to get Labour back in to Number Ten so that we can…
