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According to the liveblog on this site, yesterday’s by-election in Heywood & Middleton featured not only a second-place scare from UKIP, but a turnout of 36.02%. We’re used to by-election apathy – just 18% of the electorate voted in…
Greetings, LabourList readers. I am the Ghost of Conference Yet To Come. Thanks to advances in time-travel technology I write from Manchester in September 2019, where after a disappointing ‘no’ vote on the referendum to declare independence…
After one of the greatest shocks to the global financial market, UK plc is tentatively getting back on track. Unemployment is at a six-year low, and the UK economy grew by 3.2% in the second quarter compared with the same period last year…
This post is written by Kieran Quinn and Mike Amesbury With the debate raging in Scotland between the pro union and pro-independence camps, I thought it timely to argue the case for greater devolution for the North. Common ground shared by…
I write this as the immensely proud Member of Parliament for Blaydon. I write it in the aftermath of what has been described as a political earthquake and I write it based on four decades of activity in the Labour movement alongside 36…
Last Thursday was a dark day for progressives in South Essex. It was supposed to be a day in which the Labour Party toppled the Tories in Basildon and came within a few seats of taking back control of the Council for the first time since…
Lord Howell, the Tory peer (and Osborne's father-in-law) who caused controversy last year when he said fracking should only take place in the "desolate and unihabited" north east, has put his foot in it again. In an article for the Journal…
Interested in housing issues? Join LabourList for a free breakfast on Monday 23rd September at Labour Conference to debate flats, private landlords, mortgages, local authority builds and the like: Will Labour’s plan meet our housing needs?…
Lord Howell has been interviewed by the Telegraph today, in a desperate attempt to undo the damage of his "desolate" comments from earlier this week before he heads off on holiday. One problem though, he's making it worse. The Tory peer…
Do you know which regions of the UK have grown most over the past decade? It's London and the South East, unsurprisingly. But at the same time, the North West, Yorkshire and the North East ended further behind the rest of the country in…
The Government’s HS2 plans were opened to public consultation last week and broadly welcomed by business and political leaders in the north of England. The economic benefits are clear – in my own city of Manchester alone, up to 30,000…
Monday’s announcement on High Speed Rail is good news for the North. Fast, frequent trains will be an economic lifeline and improve connectivity between our key cities and that is why the last Labour government first suggested the idea…
