The ShortList – February 7th

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Catch up with all the last week’s highlights on LabourList with the ShortList.

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News
Labour are narrowing the poll gap and are now between 7 and 10 points behind the Tories.

40 Labour MPs have signed a call for the Party to adopt radical manifesto pledges on housing, jobs and the economy.

The UK stats watchdog this week rebuked Tory Chris Grayling for his “misleading” use of crime stats to promote the Tory “Broken Britain” agenda.

How truthful is David Cameron being on his gay rights voting record?

The witch hunt goes on: Paul Richards assesses the impact of the latest expenses revelations on our politics.

“Dry as dust Thatcherite”: An old friend of David Cameron’s debunks the Compassionate Conservative myth.

Party, People and Policy
Towards a new politics: We had all the Labour reaction to Gordon Brown’s annoucnements on democratic reform this week.

Cruddas would be “in the race”: a revealing interview with Jon Cruddas reveals his leadership ambitions may not be dead.

Sion Simon is to stand down at the election to campaign to secure Birmingham’s first elected mayor.

“Aspiration? We wrote the book on aspiration!”: Neil Kinnock gives an inspiring speech to the Tottenham Labour Party.

Winning back Labour’s lost millions: Colin Burgon looks at how it might be done.

How can Labour seize the democratic renewal agenda — and build a civic society movement in the process?

This week saw the official launch event of Labour’s newest campaign group, the Labour Campaign for International Development.

Donate to Labour and get a free, personally signed copy of Alastair Campbell’s book The Blair Years.

Communication and Organisation: Alex Smith analyses the two crucial forms of web activity.

Previous editions of the ShortList
“Classic New Labour”: The Ed Balls interview — January 31st, 2010.

Where is George Osborne? — January 24th, 2010.

Causes to Fight For — January 17th, 2010.

Hoon-Hewitt gate — January 10th, 2010.

The Copenhagen climate summit — December 20th, 2009.

The PBR — December 16th, 2009

Brown comes out fighting in PQMs — December 6th, 2009.

The Chilcot Inquiry opens — November 29th, 2009.

The Queen’s Speech — November 22nd, 2009.

Glasgow North East by-election — November 14th, 2009

Blair and Miliband to Europe? — November 8th, 2009.

Europe and the Primary debate — November 1st, 2009

Griffin on Question Time — October 25th, 2009

Tory confused numbers — October 17th, 2009

Conseravtive conference — October 10, 2009.

Labour conference — October 3rd, 2009.

A Britain where everyone has a stake and a say — September 5th, 2009.

Teddy Kennedy: a good and decent man — August 29th, 2009.

Election strategy — August 22nd, 2009.

We Love the NHS — August 15th, 2009.

Green shoots are not enough — August 8th, 2009.

Debating ConservativeHome — August 1st, 2009.

Cruddas and Purnell — July 23rd, 2009.

The Ken Livingstone interview — July 18th, 2009.