We were not alright: Kinnock describes his regret over Sheffield rally in 1992
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has spoken of his regret about the Sheffield rally in 1992 when the…
Neil Kinnock
Corbyn’s three-line whip on Brexit vote was “strategic error”, claims Kinnock
Jeremy Corbyn should have handed Labour MPs a free vote on Brexit rather than face a mass rebellion,…
Labour modernisers must focus on answers rather than ideology as we tackle dementia, diseases, poverty and loneliness
Children, Parents, Grandkids. Neighbourhood, clubs, home. Career, relationships, travel. Dreams, hopes, grief, love and fear. These are the…
Panorama: Kinnock, McCluskey and McDonnell in Corbyn TV special
A special Panorama programme, Labour: Is the party over?, will be broadcast at 8.30pm on BBC One tonight.…
A history of Militant entryism in the Labour Party
The very first article I published as a politics lecturer, over a decade ago, was a reinterpretation of…
Diane Abbott: claims of hard-left entryism are a “distraction”
Diane Abbott has dismissed claims Labour faces a wave of hard-life entryists and said Britons were joining the…
Luke Akehurst: We had an election-winning “social movement” 20 years ago – it was called the Labour Party
Twenty years ago I was part of what would now be called a “social movement”. It grew out…
As the dust settles on the vote for Brexit, it is time to reach out to our democracy’s missing millions
At a critical point in the development of the Labour party leadership, this article offers a few thoughts…
It is time to talk to the SNP about how we would make a minority Labour government work
Labour’s showing in the 2016 elections was terrible, but not bad enough to precipitate a change of leadership and…
Jeremy Corbyn on annual leadership challenges – in his own words
Last August, I interviewed Jeremy Corbyn, who was by then the frontrunner in the Labour leadership contest. In…
