‘The UK will never have a Mamdani moment’
It is the morning of 5th November. Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City, and some…
Primaries
Tony Blair admits he struggles to understand the surge for Corbyn and Bernie Sanders
TONY Blair has said he finds it difficult to understand the surge to prominence of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie…
Labour u-turn on using canvassing data to vet new sign ups
Labour will use canvassing data from this year’s General Election as an extra level of vetting for registered…
Number of voters in leadership contest revised down to 550,000
The number of people able to vote in Labour’s leadership election has been revised down to 553,954 from around…
3,000 refused a vote in Labour leadership election
The number of people rejected from voting in Labour’s leadership contest has now reached 3,000, it was revealed…
Over 600,000 people will be able to vote in the Labour leadership contest
Over 600,000 people will receive ballot papers in Labour’s leadership election, the party confirmed today. The final deadline…
Scottish Labour agree to swathe of party reforms – and new leader will be announced on August 15th
Labour’s Scottish Executive Committee has today agreed to adopt a series of party reforms, including the way in…
Do Primaries damage Multi-Party Democracy?
In 1994 I voted for John Prescott and Margaret Beckett and got Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. In…
A Very Blairite Coup
Britain’s increasingly hysterical media caravan pitched on to new territory, hoping that the Falkirk row, and Ed Miliband’s…
The principled case against primaries
People keep talking about adopting primaries as a progressive move to take power away from our unrepresentative membership…
