Keith Dibble Articles

One of the themes of this Saturday’s Third Place First conference will be about fighting every seat in every ward on every council. This is important because Labour in local government can and does make a difference even when we are in opposition I would like to tell...

The first lesson learnt from the ‘Small Labour Groups’ workshop at the Third Place First conference workshop was that, while Ed Miliband may be leader of the Labour party, within local communities it’s often the small group of hard-working councillors (sometime lone...

Can Labour win in the south?  Yes it can and we proved this in the recent May local election in Rushmoor (the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough in the Tories' Hampshire heartlands). The Labour group gained five seats and now the main opposition party with a group of...