by Kate Green MP | Jul 5, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Twenty-two years on, the lesson from the massacre at Srebrenica is that hatred creep up on us in stages – and at each stage we have the opportunity to stop it, writes Kate Green MP Next week, on 11 July, we commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the terrible massacre...
by Frank Field MP | Jul 4, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Employment law must be changed to protect the army of working people toiling away in today’s ‘gig economy’, writes work and pensions select committee chair Frank Field MP A little over a century ago, Beatrice and Sidney Webb set out the bones of a...
by Gary Kent | Jul 4, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
With a referendum looming, Kurdistan stands on the cusp of independence – but it would be unwise to think a ‘yes’ vote is already in the bag, writes Gary Kent The announcement that the Kurds are holding a referendum on independence from Iraq on 25...
by Conor Pope | Jul 3, 2017 | Monday Politics
Ian Lavery’s comments are the latest representation of the Labour leadership’s hostility towards diversity of opinion within the party, argues Progress deputy editor Conor Pope Almost a month on from the general election, the first in which both major...
by Richard Angell | Jun 30, 2017 | The Last Word
A big win for Stella Creasy, fighting for single market membership, cracks in Labour’s newfound unity, and a thank you – Progress director Richard Angell has this week’s Last Word I am proud to know Stella Creasy on most days, but yesterday she showed...
by Kuba Stawiski | Jun 28, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
That David Davis is opposed to identification cards for British citizens, but not European Union migrants, sets a very worrying precedent, writes Young Fabians secretary Kuba Stawiski It is frankly astonishing how quickly the defenders of civil liberties disappear...
by Conor Pope | Jun 27, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The Labour leader’s revitalisation is based on a belief that there has never been a better time for his politics to succeed, writes Conor Pope ‘Last night compounded a growing feeling: Jeremy Corbyn’s time is either now, or he does not have one.’ That was the...
by Mary Honeyball MEP | Jun 26, 2017 | #PAC17
The longer Brexit negotiations draw on, the stronger the hand of those that wish to remain in the single market and customs union becomes, argues Mary Honeyball MEP at Progress annual conference 2017 Ever since the result of the ill-fate referendum on Britain’s...
by Alison McGovern MP | Jun 24, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
This is the full text of Progress chair, Alison McGovern MP’s, address to Progress annual conference 2017. Watch her speech in full here. First I want to talk about Richard Angell. I don’t always know how to describe exactly what I stand for. But when I heard...
by Liam Byrne MP | Jun 24, 2017 | #PAC17
Labour was once seen as the builders of the future. We need to be again, argued Liam Byrne MP at Progress annual conference 2017 With a campaign as radical as it was united, Labour is within touching distance of government. A 3.1 per cent swing is all we need to carry...
