by Steve Wardlaw | Nov 9, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
The private sector can deliver on Labour values, especially with the support of a centre-left government, writes Steve Wardlaw It seems like it is not a good time to come out in the Labour party. And by that I mean come out as pro-business. I first joined the party in...
by Alison McGovern MP | Nov 9, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Skulduggery at conference won the battle but will not win the war, write Alison McGovern and Heidi Alexander If you ask Labour party members what the biggest issue facing our country is they would overwhelmingly tell you it is our impending departure from the European...
by Parmjit Dhanda | Nov 8, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
This week Heathrow became the UK’s first airport to be accredited as a living wage employer. Parmjit Dhanda says the knock-on effects will be huge The fight for more jobs and better wages has been intrinsic to the values of the Labour party throughout its...
by Peter Kyle MP | Nov 8, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Brexit or not, it is overdue that Britain has a more Germanic economic model – and the political consensus behind it, argues Peter Kyle If Angela Merkel had lost the recent German election a lot would have changed. But every business in Germany knows one thing that...
by Jonathan Todd | Nov 7, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Business realism must find new and resonant voice amid Brexit delusions, writes Jonathan Todd Both the libertarian right and the Bennite left see their utopias through the kaleidoscope of Britain’s exit from the European Union. They cannot both be right. The damage to...
by The Insider | Nov 7, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Insider
Some of the faces of the new ‘democratic’ movement look suspiciously like the old ones – our insider provides another dispatch from inside the Westminster village The creation of three new places for Labour members on the party’s National Executive...
by Dan Crawford | Nov 7, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Offering incentives for businesses to pay the living wage has shown to be an effective way for councils to work with private sector to enact transformational social change, writes Dan Crawford When I had the privilege of being elected onto Ealing council for the Acton...
by Mary Wimbury | Nov 6, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
We need to talk about profit, believes Mary Wimbury Profit: good or bad? Sometimes it seems that as a party we do not know. Too often I hear people say disparagingly ‘oh, they are only in it for the profit’ or dismissively ‘they are in the for-profit sector’. It is as...
by Darren Hughes | Nov 6, 2017 | Letter from ..., Section: Progress Magazine
New Zealand has a new government under Labour prime minister Jacinda Ardern. But how will it work? Darren Hughes explains For followers of centre-left politics there has not been a lot of good news of recent times – in terms of victories, rather than improved...
by Robert Philpot | Nov 3, 2017 | The Last Word
British politics remains suspended in animation: Leave voters sticking with the Tories, while Remain voters cling to Labour in the hope that the party will provide a lifeboat for a soft Brexit, writes Last Word columnist Robert Philpot If the most remarkable political...
