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,…
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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…
Goodbye Gordon, and thanks for all that you did
Writing about the life, times, career and legacy of Gordon Brown is a thankless task. Not because of…
They left us wanting more – Gordon Brown is only the latest big beast to depart
“Always leave them wanting more.” It’s not entirely clear who said it first, but this has become one…
Moving on from New Labour, not going back to old Labour – Miliband sets out programme for power at NPF
Ed Miliband will make a speech to Labour’s National Policy Forum (NPF) in Milton Keynes today, setting out…
Labour has to liberate the working classes from the dead hand of the state
So much has been written about Labour’s problem in reaching out to working class voters and crucially in…
Cruddas’s message is clear: the digital age is ours for the taking
Jon Cruddas’s wide-ranging speech to the RSA on Tuesday on a New Progressive Politics deserves some real attention…
Don’t look back in anger
“A new dawn has broken, has it not?” These were the words of Tony Blair, shortly after a…
New Labour obituary: this is the modernisers’ Clause Four moment
Yesterday, it was announced that Progress would be dropping their label as “the New Labour pressure group”. This…
