by Richard Angell | Jun 24, 2017 | #PAC17
Full text of the speech Progress director Richard Angell gave to open Progress annual conference 2017. You can watch the conference live on Facebook. Welcome to Progress annual conference 2017. It is promises yet again to be the place of ‘straight talking honest...
by Richard Angell | Jun 23, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
We are adopting a new funding model for Progress – and we need your help, writes Richard Angell After 21 years of generous support, I know you will want to join me as we thank Lord Sainsbury for his generous and ongoing support for Progress and our centre-left...
by Peter Hain | Jun 23, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The Labour party must be in the vanguard of the struggle to keep the United Kingdom in the single market, argues former cabinet minister Peter Hain As Jeremy Corbyn has argued, Labour must prioritise jobs and the economy over Brexit – which, for those Labour...
by Bex Bailey | Jun 22, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The general election represented a welcome stride forward for the Labour party on women’s representation – but the job is far from done, argues former NEC youth rep Bex Bailey Labour now has more women MPs than at any point in its history. We must seize on this...
by Stephen Beer | Jun 22, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
A threadbare, unimaginative Queen’s speech leaves Theresa May’s government on the cusp of a very early demise, writes Stephen Beer The Queen’s speech was a vivid representation of the state into which the Conservative party has got both itself and the...
by Seema Malhotra MP | Jun 21, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Theresa May has been undermined by her chancellor. There are now two Brexit strategies at the heart of government, writes Seema Malhotra MP This week at Mansion House, the chancellor Phillip Hammond gave an extraordinary speech that made it quite clear that he had...
by Christabel Cooper | Jun 21, 2017 | Christabel Cooper
We owe it to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire to ensure we live up to our obligations to those in social housing, argues Progress strategy board member Christabel Cooper Unlike many cities in the world, London does not banish its council estates to the outskirts...
by Conor Pope | Jun 19, 2017 | Monday Politics
Labour has the opportunity to change things despite being out of government – but only if it makes use of every constitutional mechanism within its power, writes Progress deputy editor Conor Pope Jeremy Corbyn’s critics inside the Labour party should not have been...
by Richard Angell | Jun 16, 2017 | The Last Word
Remembering Jo Cox, Labour’s post-election unity, the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, and #TipLondon – Progress director Richard Angell has this week’s Last Word The anniversary of Jo Cox’s brutal murder brings mixed emotions. For all of us that knew...
by Christabel Edwards | Jun 15, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
To win an overall majority Labour must break with tradition and court the left behind voters of the deep countryside, argues Christabel Edwards In October 1992 Michael Heseltine, then secretary of state for trade and industry, announced the closure of thirty of the...
