Comment ‘Labour can smell power but isn’t ready’: 5 things the party must do to prepare If Keir Starmer finds himself in Downing Street after the next election, December 2021 will be seen the… Peter Apps 22nd December, 2021, 10:00 am
Comment 20 years after 9/11, Labour must improve its thinking on foreign policy Tony Blair took to the stage at the Labour Party conference on October 2nd 2001 and outlined his… Peter Apps 28th August, 2021, 11:00 am
Comment Labour’s future candidates programme is controversial – but if it works, we win If you want to be one of Keir Starmer’s new generation of parliamentary candidates, you now have until… Peter Apps 13th August, 2021, 10:29 am
Comment Peter Apps: Why I’m standing to be a member of Labour’s NEC With all the focus on the leader and deputy leadership elections, it’s easy to forget another series of… Peter Apps 19th February, 2020, 1:00 pm
Comment Could NHS issues trump Brexit in marginal Thurrock? For Labour parliamentary candidate John Kent and his team in Thurrock, it has been a two-year election campaign. In… Peter Apps 11th December, 2019, 12:26 pm
Comment Meet Labour’s ex-forces veterans fighting for a better Britain In the 2017 general election, former British Army Royal Signals officer Sarah Church added more than 5,000 votes… Peter Apps 7th December, 2019, 10:00 am
Comment For disabled candidates and members, this election is personal Campaigning with a disability is rarely less than a challenge – and a winter election makes it even… Peter Apps 3rd December, 2019, 3:00 pm
Comment Labour should be “of the many”, not just “for the many” To be a candidate for potential parliamentary selection in the Labour Party has been a strange experience. Despite… Belinda Washington & Peter Apps 9th October, 2019, 12:57 pm
Comment Labour’s credibility on the military grows apace while for the Tories it is on the wane “We are going to get hammered on defence at the election.” I think I lost track of the number… Peter Apps 27th June, 2017, 4:09 pm
Comment The most important thing is getting Brexit right – and Britain’s best hope is to have Corbyn in Downing Street tomorrow When this election campaign started, I thought that wherever you stood ideologically, it was hard not to see… Peter Apps 8th June, 2017, 4:53 pm