Darren Hughes Articles

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...

Parliament's most elitist election shows why government should bring the era of unelected lawmaking to a close altogether, writes Darren Hughes In 1999, the House of Lords Act removed all but 92 of the ‘backwoodsmen’ – the hundreds of (almost entirely Conservative)...

This year marks the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war, a conflict that took millions of lives and maimed even more. It is easily among the worst wars in all of human history, and British and Commonwealth nations routinely pause to acknowledge the horror...

Ed Miliband has easily won conference season two years running. His pitch for Labour to be the party of One Nation has helped to frame the party’s approach to the last half of this parliament. Last autumn he added his theme of fixing broken markets, a notion still...