by Roger Liddle | Aug 30, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Britain’s membership of the single market and customs union is not about economics but implementing Labour values, argue Rupa Huq and Roger Liddle Fifteen months on from the referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union with the clock ticking on...
by Catherine Barnard | Aug 30, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
You can provide controls on immigration while upholding free movement of labour, finds Catherine Barnard For many people, it was concerns about immigration that prompted them to vote to leave the European Union. The perception was that the United Kingdom was unable to...
by Luke Akehurst | Aug 29, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Will Momentum, the National Executive Committee and the leader’s office break Labour’s unity with hostile rule changes at party conference? Labour party annual conference 2017 will operate on two levels. Publicly, the unexpectedly good performance for Labour in the...
by Adrian McMenamin | Aug 29, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Debate
Was Labour’s 2017 manifesto really the progressive platform the left has been waiting for? [column-group][column] YES – Matt Zarb-Cousin In the last election, Labour not only broke with conventional wisdom in terms of how it campaigned, but its policy platform also...
by Editorial | Aug 27, 2017 | Editorial, Section: Progress Magazine
The UK staying in the single market is in the gift of the Labour leader and his ‘new politics’ Jeremy Corbyn paints his political views in primary colours: he is against war, austerity and the private sector. He was a fervent critic of Neil Kinnock, John Smith, Tony...
by Hilary Armstrong | Aug 27, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
If Jeremy Corbyn gives Labour MPs the room to act it could mean staying in the single market without losing the ‘left behind’ voters to Labour’s cause, believes Hilary Armstrong The challenge for the Labour leadership in the coming weeks and months around Brexit is...
by Mark Stuart | Aug 27, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Could the cautious Brexit approach come back to harm Jeremy Corbyn, asks Mark Stuart At last, David Davis, the secretary of state for exiting the European Union, has revealed his initial negotiating hand on the customs union. The government proposes a temporary...
by Richard Angell | Aug 25, 2017 | The Last Word
Jon Snow knows something about privilege, GSCE results, foreign student falsehoods and justice for Grenfell – Progress director Richard Angell has this week’s Last Word Jon Snow used his James MacTaggart Memorial lecture to explored the necessary – and urgent –...
by Chris Carter | Aug 25, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Moderates must develop the ideas, policies and sense of mission to extend Labour’s coalition beyond the university-educated and those that work in the public sector, writes Chris Carter ‘We need to reconnect with our working-class roots’, ‘we...
by Vera Baird | Aug 24, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Without an increase in officer levels, the Criminal Prosecution Service’s commitment to tackle hate crime will go unfulfilled, writes Northumbria police and crime commissioner Vera Baird Director of public prosecutions Alison Saunders announced this week that...
