Labour does not need uniformity, but unity
On Friday evening I went to my local Labour Party meeting in Oxford. What we had hoped would…
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Newly-elected Labour MPs call for a leader who won’t “draw back to New Labour”
With a leadership and deputy leadership contest underway, many are offering their view on which path the party…
A return to New Labour won’t help us connect with people who are disengaged from Labour
Last week’s General Election result was a disaster for the Labour Party and the millions of people who…
If the leadership contest becomes a “Blairite, Brownite, New Labour, Old Labour” slanging match, we’ll learn nothing. And we’ll all lose
It’s only forty eight hours from Ed Miliband’s resignation as Labour leader and the level of nonsense being talked about…
Rejecting the Blair money is just expensive grandstanding
Last week’s donation of £106,000 from Tony Blair to the Labour Party was designed to show the high…
“At times we did get too close to big business” – Burnham reflects on New Labour and the NHS
Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary, has spoken out about New Labour’s relationship with big business and their approach…
The continuing adventures of New Labour ministers who are living in the past
Last week I warned that some of Labour’s senior figures from the New Labour era were “living in…
New Labour ministers call for greater defence of party’s economic record
To win in May, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls needs to defend the last Labour Government’s economic record,…
Labour needs a more radical narrative – or face political irrelevance
Earlier this week the Labour Party published a policy programme – a 29 page statement of intent. The…
Why and how we must fight to make the Labour Party better
This piece was inspired by the recent essay on the death of Social Democracy by Neal Lawson I…
