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Nick Thomas-Symonds’ new biography of Harold Wilson is titled The Winner, which should give you a fair idea of the author’s thoughts about Labour’s third Prime Minister. He is pro. Thomas-Symonds’ book is a lively account of the life and…
Neil Kinnock has been appointed as chair of Labour in Communications, LabourList can reveal, with the former Labour leader declaring that the group must "work tirelessly to rebuild, modernise and increase the relevance of Labour’s message"…
Neil Kinnock has urged the Labour Party to "face outwards and attack the real enemy and focus our attention and energies on that, rather than trying to prove our worth and earn our spurs by victories in internal battles". The former Labour…
Two years on from the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, the nature of the project is widely misunderstood. Opponents portray him as a throwback to the 1970s, or, worse still, as an attempt to impose Venezuelan…
Three million people will be hit by the shocking 12.5 per cent electricity price hike by British Gas and these include some of the poorest people in the country. British Gas has led customers into a false sense of security. Previous freezes…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has spoken of his regret about the Sheffield rally in 1992 when the party seen as triumphalist days before a surprise defeat. The pre-election event, held 25 years ago and one week prior to a electoral win…
Jeremy Corbyn should have handed Labour MPs a free vote on Brexit rather than face a mass rebellion, Lord Kinnock has said. The former leader and ex-European Commissioner criticised Corbyn's handling of the article 50 votes in the Commons…
Children, Parents, Grandkids. Neighbourhood, clubs, home. Career, relationships, travel. Dreams, hopes, grief, love and fear. These are the realms in which people live their lives. Neil Kinnock famously warned against a politics irrelevant…
A special Panorama programme, Labour: Is the party over?, will be broadcast at 8.30pm on BBC One tonight. A serious of big-hitters from the labour movement spoke to John Pienaar. Lord Kinnock former Labour leader On the prospects for the…
The very first article I published as a politics lecturer, over a decade ago, was a reinterpretation of Michael Foot’s handling of the Militant Tendency. In recent weeks, the Militant Tendency has, once again, been the subject of a great…
Neil Kinnock has criticised "ideological flights of fancy", and said that Labour needs to show that socialism can "work in practice" before it can be successful. The former leader has said that winning parties have to be "professional" as…
Last August, I interviewed Jeremy Corbyn, who was by then the frontrunner in the Labour leadership contest. In the half hour before a huge campaign rally in Cardiff, we discussed electoral strategy, the Tories' record, how to take on the…
