by Conor Pope | Feb 13, 2017 | Monday Politics
Compared to past reshuffles, Jeremy Corbyn’s latest shows him at his weakest, writes Progress deputy editor Conor Pope This is the fifth shadow cabinet reshuffle since Jeremy Corbyn became leader just 17 months ago, and the first that I have not had to cover as...
by Ben Shimshon | Feb 13, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
After an awful year for progressives, Ben Shimshon and Cordelia Hay set out four ways to survive the next 12 months At BritainThinks, we are lucky to hear from voters week in and week out. In 2016, many of us forgot the lesson that you need start from where people...
by Stephen Beer | Feb 13, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Labour must call for a Brexit that can unite people, not fight the battle for Britain’s future on the Conservatives’ terms, argues Stephen Beer It is hard to escape the impression that Labour has got Brexit wrong. If we carry on as we are, we will struggle...
by James Wood | Feb 13, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
For too long Labour has championed rail renationalisation without explaining how it will solve the problems that the railways face, writes James Wood Rail renationalisation has for a long time been an ideological comfort blanket for the Labour party. The public do...
by Luke Akehurst | Feb 11, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
A hard-left takeover of conference would change more than the odd policy, argues Luke Akehurst This year Labour party members do not get balloted for the National Executive Committee but they will vote in a national one member one vote ballot for another very...
by Richard Angell | Feb 10, 2017 | The Last Word
The Corbynite coalition’s gaping hole, an opportunity for Scottish Labour and an NHS crisis in Copeland – Richard Angell has this week’s Last Word Principle and power are harder to reconcile for some over others. Jeremy Corbyn led his Labour troops through...
by Grace Skelton | Feb 10, 2017 | Grace Skelton
In closing the scheme brought about by the Dubs amendment, Theresa May has confirmed that the ‘nasty party’ is well and truly back, argues Grace Skelton After her Lancaster House speech setting out the government’s aims for the Brexit negotiations,...
by Anna Turley MP | Feb 10, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Building a positive future for the steel industry in Britain will require strategic, supportive action from the government, writes Anna Turley MP Last month the government finally announced some detail on its much vaunted intentions for an industrial strategy. Those...
by Lizzy Dobres | Feb 10, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Britain’s mental health system is in desperate need of a radical overhaul, writes Lizzy Dobres Last week a #TimetoTalk day was held, a mental health awareness day set up by Time to Change. It was fantastic to see so many people participating in #TimetoTalk on...
by Editorial | Feb 9, 2017 | Editorial, Section: Progress Magazine
A future Labour government must shake-up skills on the scale the last transformed the NHS ‘We toured the country to talk about immigration and came back talking about skills’, shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer tells this magazine (page 20) in his exclusive...
