Luke Akehurst Articles

Why does the Co-op pick Israeli companies to boycott? It doesn’t add up. This morning in Manchester I found myself demonstrating outside the HQ of a major supermarket chain. It wasn’t the HQ of a profiteering capitalist supermarket chain though. I was demonstrating...

The full Labour party National Executive Committee met on 17 July. The meeting was preceded by a meeting of the Organisation Committee and followed by one of the Community Campaigning Working Group so it was an eight-hour day of meetings! At the Organisation Committee...

The full National Executive Committee met on 29 May. It was a long meeting (four hours) with a lot of serious deliberation but no fireworks. Chair Michael Cashman welcomed Sadiq Khan who has replaced Peter Hain as a shadow ministerial representative on the NEC...

The policy review is a tricky balancing act which may benefit from its new ringmaster By Luke Akehurst —‘Policies don’t win elections, policies lose elections. Balloons and whirly hats win elections.’ This aphorism did the rounds in New Labour circles in the 1990s. It...