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Today nearly two hundred delegates arrive at a conference centre/hotel on the edge of Milton Keynes to begin Labour's "final stage" meeting of the National Policy Forum(NPF). It's possible to both understate and overstate the significance…
Nick Robinson reported earlier this evening that "Labour will soon unveil a promise to change the law to allow for the part re-nationalisation of the rail network." Except that's not exactly the case. Tomorrow the National Policy Forum…
Labour’s National Policy Forum (NPF) meets this weekend. Zzzzzzzzzzzz ... I hear the reaction from all but the most obsessive students of the Party’s internal processes. But this meeting is actually important. Aside from Annual Conference…
Today, the think tank the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) has released a paper that says by shining public services, the UK is "falling out of step with the rest of the world". The report written by Professor Andrew Cumbers say…
Ahh the railways. After the NHS there are few topics more likely to bring up the blood pressure of a Labour Party activist. They are a part of us and our story - a story of a benevolent state acting not for a profit motive, but for the good…
Who's on your NEC? With CLP nominations closing, and Dennis Skinner losing his seat in the MP constituency for the first time in decades, Labour's National Executive Committee has been has been in the news this week - how often can you say…
The Guardian reports this morning that the Labour Party will this week announce plans to allow state owned rail companies to compete with private sector companies for rail franchises, stating: “Ed Miliband will anger rail unions and some…
Recently I was at a event when a member of the Shadow Cabinet tapped me on the shoulder. They wanted to know if I thought the Tories might be at the event, perhaps recording what they said and poring over it in detail, attempting to trip…
Ed Miliband has already made two pledges on housing - that 200,000 homes a year will be built by 2020, and that action will be taken on the length and cost of private sector tenancies. Both have received broad support from across the party…
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Chris Leslie is the man behind Labour's "Zero-Based Review" of government spending. That's a hugely influential role. Every government department, the big dreams of every Shadow Cabinet Minister and…
Contrary to popular belief (and by popular belief, I mean the belief that prevails amongst the Shadow Cabinet and its apparatchiks) the Labour Party does not exist as a fan club for the Parliamentary faction. The Labour Party is an…
The National Health Service is the Labour Party’s greatest achievement. The Labour Party will always cherish and protect the values of care, compassion and cooperation which have been at the heart of the service for the last 66 years…
