Comment 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 6th June, 2016, 5:00 pm
Comment 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… Neal Lawson 10th May, 2016, 4:53 pm
Comment Is Labour dead? Jon Trickett, Shadow Minister and Deputy Party Chair, reviews Downfall – the new publication from Compass – which… Jon Trickett 8th June, 2015, 10:32 am
Video 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.… 12th May, 2015, 9:30 am
Comment 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… Neal Lawson 4th March, 2015, 3:11 pm
Comment 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… Neal Lawson 22nd January, 2015, 8:11 am
Featured Labour must embrace Proportional Representation Britain no longer has a natural party of government. Yesterdays Ashcroft poll giving Labour and the Tories a… Neal Lawson 21st October, 2014, 12:30 pm
Comment 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… Neal Lawson 7th July, 2014, 9:02 am
Featured What Miliband is doing is welcome and necessary – but it is not yet sufficient Labour keeps making pretty big, pretty good policy announcements but the polls keep narrowing. What do we do?… Neal Lawson 12th May, 2014, 9:01 am
Comment Technology is favouring Labour, but only if it can transform itself Last Saturday Labour wrote the final chapter of a book left without a conclusion for over 20 years. … Neal Lawson 5th March, 2014, 8:27 am