News Stoke-on-Trent members select former council chief to tackle UKIP in by-election Labour members in Stoke tonight picked a former council leader to defend their seat from the expected UKIP onslaught.… Peter Edwards 25th January, 2017, 11:40 pm
News Labour needs a Brexiteer to see off UKIP threat in Stoke, campaigners claim Party members must pick a Brexiteer candidate in Stoke if they are to see off the challenge posed… Peter Edwards 25th January, 2017, 1:05 pm
News Labour aims to fend off UKIP by completing Stoke selection this week Labour has confirmed it will push ahead with a quick selection process in Stoke in a bid to… Peter Edwards 22nd January, 2017, 11:19 am
Comment Fabians: Labour has no chance of winning outright – it will have to get used to the idea of working alongside other parties The politics of 2016 may have been frenetic but now an uneasy calm has descended on the Labour… Andrew Harrop 3rd January, 2017, 12:00 pm
Comment UKIP’s vision is of an NHS that checks your purse before it checks your pulse – Jon Ashworth’s rally speech Thank you for that introduction and it is a pleasure to be here. Our first duty should be… Jon Ashworth 16th December, 2016, 12:00 pm
Comment Labour’s big players know we must debate immigration – but party must resist the lure of the right’s post-truth populism Immigration is a topic no one in Labour really relishes discussing. In this post-truth era, where facts no longer… Emma Bean 12th December, 2016, 5:00 pm
News Labour candidate puts NHS at heart of final push for next by-election Labour aims to boost its support while fending off a challenge from UKIP when the second Brexit by-election… Emma Bean 6th December, 2016, 3:08 pm
News Healey: Labour needs to prove itself on jobs and migration to see off UKIP threat Labour must tackle the threat of UKIP by proving it has “good answers” to public concern over immigration, job security… Emma Bean 30th November, 2016, 8:00 am
Comment John Healey: UKIP has a new leader but we must show it’s only Labour that can stand up for blue-collar Britain In 2012 when John Spellar and I ran the Rotherham by-election we saw UKIP get over a fifth… John Healey 30th November, 2016, 7:00 am
Comment Trickett: UKIP’s choice of leader shows they pose a clear threat to our NHS This is a statement from Labour’s national campaigns coordinator Jon Trickett. “You only need to know one thing… Jon Trickett 28th November, 2016, 1:17 pm