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Gathering large numbers of political people in the same room can be a dangerous game. There is the risk of groupthink, of introspection and of losing sight of the outside world. I’m sure we all know the story of Michael Foot refusing to…
It is the one place you thought you would never find him. Yes, Jeremy Corbyn, the veteran left-winger whose denunciations of New Labour carried him to the very top of the party, has just been named as the "keynote speaker" at the annual…
In a surprise move, Jeremy Corbyn has been revealed as the keynote speaker at this weekend's Progress Conference. The Labour leader is not seen as a natural ideological ally of the group, which last year endorsed a vote for "anyone but…
Alison McGovern will today call on Labour colleagues to reject proposals for an English parliament and argue the national party has too often been held back by "fatalism" and "miserablism" about Britain. She will demand a higher-profile…
Open letter to Labour General Secretary Iain McNicol from Richard Angell, Director of Progress Dear Iain, The rise in anti-semitism in our party has received much media attention in the last six months. It has sadly become an all too…
A group of Labour MPs and activists from across the party is about to launch a new unity group in an attempt to combat the "factionalism" which has become endemic in the party. Consensus says it will draw upon party members who have been…
In September 2015, five committed members of the Party made their way to Brighton for the annual Labour Party Conference. Like most party conference attendees, we were full of excitement and anticipation at a week packed with political…
Labour has made "no progress" on the areas that caused the party to lose last year's election, according to the man who ran the general election campaign. Spencer Livermore, who was Labour's General Election Campaign Director last year, and…
In November I wrote an editorial for Progress magazine headlined We need to talk about... losing'. At the time the Labour Party was telling itself that the fact that 450,000 people voted in a Labour leadership election in September 2015…
It is time to extend the ladder of opportunity to young people in our party, and in the country. A strong Young Labour is vital to both. This weekend I was elected the youth rep on Labour's NEC. With support across the movement: Young…
This is the full text of the speech given by Shadow Cabinet member Jon Ashworth to Progress' The Future of Labour’s Centre Left event on Tuesday. Thank you for inviting me to speak - my first time at a Progress event. We meet tonight after…
Labels like 'Blairite' and 'Brownite' have been dismissed as "irrelevant", as calls come in from senior Labour figures for the party to work together towards electoral victory. Speaking at a Progress event on 'The Future of the Centre-left'…
