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Alison McGovern has resigned from a policy review group over disagreements with the leadership. McGovern, who is chair of Labour pressure group Progress, has resigned from a position on Labour's child poverty policy group after Shadow…
Today has so far seen the resignation of three Labour frontbenchers following yesterday's reshuffle, with more resignations likely later this evening. Jonathan Reynolds, Stephen Doughty and Kevan Jones have all today stepped down from their…
Wirral South MP Alison McGovern is the new chair of Progress, it has been announced. The role is elected by the Progress strategy board, and McGovern succeeds John Woodcock in the position. She becomes the first women to chair Progress. In…
The last Labour Government should not be the inspiration for the next, according to Progress, in the latest move to suggest the organisation are looking to put their New Labour image behind them. Progress dropped the use of 'New Labour'…
As I’m the director of Progress, I doubt many will be surprised I didn’t get the email inviting to join Momentum, the new “grassroots network” and “social movement” being built from the Jeremy Corbyn campaign. I won’t pretend to have…
Nostalgia is to modernising politics, what rust is to iron. Corrosive. Modernisers in the Labour Party have been dealt a heavy blow. Our candidate Liz Kendall did us proud but the result shows the challenge we face to win over our fellow…
The overwhelming victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the leadership election earlier this month has prompted Progress, originally set up in the 1990s as a pro-New Labour project, to declare that "the era of New Labour is over" in a new editorial…
In the coming weeks I expect these pages will see numerous appeals for unity, respect and humility. This process is natural and right. Though an inevitable consequence of an open democratic process, airing our dirtiest laundry in public has…
The Labour Party will not split if Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader, Tristram Hunt will declare today. The Shadow Education will say that the party's history has been marked by two splits, both originating from the right of the party, and both…
This article is from the new Progress pamphlet 'Face-off', examining the potential successors to David Cameron as Conservative leader. You can read the full pamphlet here. Few leaders inspire true fear in their opponents. Those that do, do…
Labour First, the group that represents the non-New Labour moderate flank of the party, has written an open letter to Progress chiefs Richard Angell and John Woodcock MP, calling on them to support tactical voting to stop Jeremy Corbyn…
One of Labour's biggest donors has said there could be an "SDP-style split" if Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader of the Labour party. But the contender has said that the "silly remarks" over the leadership contest need to end. Former Prime…
