The long Labour summer has been drawn-out and frustrating. No more so than for Owen Smith who trudged around the...
The long Labour summer has been drawn-out and frustrating. No more so than for Owen Smith who trudged around the...
‘We’re in interesting times’ – this is how moderates describe Labour’s turmoil when they want friends and family to...
The independence referendum in Scotland loomed large over last month’s European Union referendum. It became...
In 1997 Labour’s manifesto contained one, rather vague, sentence about childcare. It would be safe to wager the cost...
Last month’s local and European elections bore all the hallmarks of a dress rehearsal for next year’s general...
The results of elections to the European parliament have proved somewhat unreliable indicators as to how voters will...
There have been few electoral bright spots for the centre-left internationally since the collapse of Lehman Brothers...
Throughout its history the divisions between Labour’s left and right – over issues ranging from nationalisation and...
Forty years ago this month, Harold Wilson led Labour back to power and ejected Edward Heath from Downing Street. It...
‘There is one thing you can be sure of with the Conservative party, before anything else – they have a grand sense of...
The special conference which will meet to debate Ed Miliband’s proposed party reforms in March is potentially the most...
For much of the last three decades, leftwing populism has seemed something of a contradiction in terms. Even after...