Neal Lawson: Labour is stuck but the people who want to leap to a new politics are scattered across the party
Dear Labour, B.B. (Before Brexit), I started writing constructively critical letters to other progressive parties; the Greens, the…
Neal Lawson
McDonnell considers universal basic income as Compass swings behind the flat-rate payment
John McDonnell has paved the way for Labour to adopt the Green Party policy of providing a flat…
Neal Lawson: Labour must back the universal basic income and use it as a springboard to power
There are moments in your political life when you have to pinch yourself. When John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor…
Neal Lawson: It’s time for Labour to give up on tribalism and embrace PR
At the weekend John McDonnell made a call for the party to support a shift to proportional…
Is Labour dead?
Jon Trickett, Shadow Minister and Deputy Party Chair, reviews Downfall – the new publication from Compass – which…
Stella Creasy doesn’t rule out running to be Deputy Leader
Yesterday Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, said she’d consider running to be Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.…
Tactical voting: unless we are an open tribe, we will die
So Compass holds a debate about the relevance, or not, of tactical voting in the run up May…
It’s good to talk
Ed won’t talk to Nicola. Nicola won’t talk to David and neither will Natalie nor Leanne. Nick won’t…
Labour must embrace Proportional Representation
Britain no longer has a natural party of government. Yesterdays Ashcroft poll giving Labour and the Tories a…
Should trains be owned by the public? The answer will define Labour
Sometimes the whole messy, complex and frustrating world of Labour politics gets boiled down to something simple. Beyond…
