Luke Akehurst Articles

One of the reasons why Labour’s recovery from its 2010 defeat looks to be on a better trajectory than the Party’s implosion after the 1979 defeat is that thus far there hasn’t been a serious move to saddle us with a unilateralist defence policy. Of course the usual...

This week’s Conservative party conference gave me the impression of a party that has collectively written off the prospect of winning the next general election outright and is instead focused on other strategic objectives. Up until recently David Cameron seemed to...

Luke Akehurst on the lessons Hugh Gaitksell’s career offers to today’s Labour moderates I hope that Hugh Gaitskell would be proud to know that, as we approach the 50th anniversary of his death in 1963, there are still people in the Labour party debating his legacy and...

Report on National Executive Committee meeting held on 25 September 2012. The pre-conference NEC meeting understandably focuses on some of the nuts and bolts of conference, receiving a report from Harry Donaldson, chair of the conference arrangements committee....