Ivan Lewis: Manchester does not need or want forced academy status for its schools
George Osborne’s Budget announcement that all primary and secondary schools will be forced to become academies by…
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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…
Labour may not know how many registered supporters have been verified as eligible to vote
Labour Party officials appear not to know how many of the people who have applied to be registered…
Weekly Survey: Scottish Labour leadership and registered supporters
The new leader and deputy leadership team of the Scottish Labour Party will be announced on Saturday…
Labour won’t give breakdown of leadership election result
The Labour Party is not planning to publish a breakdown of the leadership election result, showing how the…
Tory MP tries to sign up to vote in Labour’s leadership election, gets booted out
Tory MP Tim Loughton appears to have fallen foul of the Labour Party’s new election rules. The party…
Over a quarter of a million could vote in Labour leadership contest
Over a quarter of a million people are now eligible to vote in this summer’s Labour leadership election,…
Let’s not rush this, it needs to be a primary
Leading the Labour Party after this defeat will be the ‘thirteenth labour of Hercules’, as one activist put…
NEC extends deadline for supporters to register for London Mayoral Primary
In two months, Labour will begin to choose a London Mayoral candidate. In recent weeks that has been…
