LabourList readers split on Mayoral candidate announcements
LabourList readers are split over when the best time is for London Mayor candidates to announce their intentions.…
Working Class
Dennis Skinner turns down pay rise and urges Scots to vote No
In an interview with the Daily Mirror’s Kevin Maguire, Dennis Skinner, veteran Labour MP, has said that he’ll…
Weekly Survey: London Mayor candidates, working class MPs and housing
A month ago, Mark Ferguson took to the pages of the Evening Standard to warn against contenders for…
Without more working class MPs, can we really call it the Labour Party?
140 years ago, one of the first working-class MPs was elected to the House of Commons. Thomas Burt,…
The Choice – support or dump Labour’s traditional voters
Many of the former Labour voters who are switching to UKIP see Labour as part of a liberal…
Working people need a strong voice in the very place that excludes them
It really is all too easy for us to despair as we see countless cases, not just in…
Labour has to liberate the working classes from the dead hand of the state
So much has been written about Labour’s problem in reaching out to working class voters and crucially in…
Labour’s real ‘blue collar’ problem
As is entirely predictable, the post local elections analysis has focused on ‘what on earth is Labour to…
Giving up on the “white working class” is a 20% strategy
John McTernan’s recent analysis of Labour and British politics has been rather good. I was therefore rather surprised…
Rachel Reeves is right – we’re losing many of “our voters”. So what are we doing about it?
Rachel Reeves spoke at a “One Nation” conference last week – and made an important observation regarding the…
