John McDonnell: Blair and Brown delivered vital investment in public services – but PFI must end
I’d like to thank Ken Loach for that wonderful film and thank Ken for his incredible contribution to…
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McDonnell vows to bring “wasteful” PFI deals back into public hands
John McDonnell today signalled another decisive shift away from the New Labour era when he vowed to end…
Labour should impose rent controls on university accommodation – and hoover up more of the student vote
Labour’s popular manifesto, coupled with chants of “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn”, seems to have won the hearts and minds…
Luke Akehurst: We will fight and fight again against the “McDonnell amendment”
Tuesday’s NEC meeting has helped contribute to a sense of gloom and defeatism among my fellow Labour moderates.…
Blair: Hard Brexit could put “far left” Corbyn in Downing Street
Tony Blair has issued a warning over what he sees as the risk of a “an unreconstructed far-left”…
Corbyn’s shake-up of party democracy must ensure Labour stays a broad church
It is a ground-breaking attempt to give Labour’s army of members a greater voice than ever before in…
The coup against Corbyn was wrong – but it does not justify a purge of MPs
After two years of criticising Jeremy Corbyn and one spent trying to depose him, Labour MPs witnessed a…
Denis MacShane: Blair was wrong on immigration as PM but he is right now
Predictably anything that Tony Blair says is met with knee-jerk rent-a-quote Tory, Labour and trade union denunciations. But…
Emily Thornberry: “Cynical” prime minister plans to fail Brexit talks
Theresa May’s “only plan” for Brexit talks is failure, Emily Thornberry said today. The shadow foreign secretary accused…
Why Blair had a right to speak out on immigration – and why his road ahead is a precarious one for Labour
Tony Blair was right to speak out. That doesn’t mean everything he was correct in everything he said…
