‘A Labour government won’t have an easy start. We must plan for hard times’
Across the advanced economy nations, centre-left parties are governing in hard times. The Mile End Institute’s recent conference…
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Will a Keir Starmer government bring continuity or change?
Speaking at a Progressive Britain conference this weekend, Labour leader Keir Starmer promised to go ‘further and deeper’…
Manuel Cortes: Brexit? No pasarán!
The growing working-class disillusionment with Brexit can no longer be dismissed as a figment of the imagination of…
Labour needs radical ideas to solve the housing crisis – so let’s scrap right to buy
We have a housing crisis in this country that can only be solved by local government building more.…
The decline of industry in Stoke, and the Tory threat to manufacturing, shows why Labour has every right to reject article 50
The potteries in Stoke didn’t close because of immigration. They closed because of foreign competition from China and…
Trump’s success as is much of a shock as if Labour lost Newcastle – now the centre left needs a new vision for the future
It’s 9:30pm in Miami, 2:30am in London, and I’m sat in a bar at the Miami-Dade election night…
Internal fighting must not distract us from reconnecting with working people
Labour faces a crisis. Boundary changes and internal disputes are bad enough but the clearest challenge is surely…
Whatever happened to Red UKIP?
Today, Nigel Farage says that he’ll resign as UKIP leader if he fails to win a seat in…
Why we should be proud of Labour’s links with trade unions
Six million people, 1 in 10 of the population, and a considerably bigger proportion of the electorate for the…
It’s not just Ed. Their faith in competition makes all our politicians weird
It’s not just Ed. There’s something profoundly weird about our political class. Labour, LibDem and Tory, politicians seem…
