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The Telegraph has a rather remarkable splash on their front page today. The bulk of the piece revolves around a former Cameron adviser who feels that he has been pushed out of the inner circle by the Prime Minister's clique. It would be a…
Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg gives his support to the Campaign for a Labour Majority which Progress will be launching at their conference tomorrow. With only two years to go until the general election, the scale of the challenge…
This morning Progress will be announcing the line up for their conference - at which they'll be launching their new "Campaign for a Labour Majority". It is planned to run from this May for a year. Progress will be arguing that Miliband has…
Luke Akehurst was absolutely correct to underscore the importance of unity against our collective enemy – the Tory Party and this Coalition government. He also has a point when he argues against the pigeon-holing of comrades within the…
Yesterday I wrote about the row between Alan Johnson and Len McCluskey - now I want to explain what might be driving it. Much of the heat in this is about the current round of parliamentary selections. The left has correctly clocked that…
I had been resisting the temptation to step in between Alan Johnson and Len McCluskey and shout the online version of “back off, he ain’t worth it” at them both. I might be running the risk of getting politically thumped by both sides. But…
There is an ongoing debate about the place of New Labour within the Labour Party tradition. Some, generally on the left of the party, argue that New Labour was a sharp departure from the principles on which the party was founded. Some…
Progress have launched a pamphlet called "The Purple Papers" (a nod to their Purple Book of last year), which urges Labour to spell out the tough choices that it would have to make in government before the election, rather than afterwards…
A few weeks ago at their conference, GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny stated that: "I know that at this very moment a resolution is written and will be delivered to the Labour Party shortly. It is a rule amendment which will go before this…
I was asked this week to contribute to a conference on ‘progressivism’ organised by the University of Nottingham centre for politics. It was held in the University of London’s Senate House, the architectural inspiration for Orwell’s…
After a few weeks of low level acrimony - it seems, at long last, like we may finally be able to put Progress vs GMB/Unison/ASLEF et al row to bed. And not before time - with the banking sector following the media as the latest…
The New Labour pressure group Progress have just released the following statement: Throughout its existence, Progress has had one overriding purpose: to secure the election of the Labour party to govern Britain. Given the damage the Tories…
