The full National Executive Committee met on 29 May. It was a long meeting (four hours) with a lot of serious...
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Luke Akehurst Articles
Man on wire
The policy review is a tricky balancing act which may benefit from its new ringmaster By Luke Akehurst —‘Policies...
Making no ‘no-go areas’ a reality
It’s only three weeks since one set of local government elections but we need to start thinking now about how Labour...
Why Labour people should back AV
That’s why the physical doorstep campaigning I’ll be doing will be for Labour in marginal councils we can...
Labour sweeps the south
This issue has also been pushed by Stuart King’s Southern Front website, and by Harriet Harman as deputy leader....
News from the NEC
The NEC held its bi-monthly full meeting on 29 March. The key item of business was Peter Hain introducing the...
No closed shop
The new process is being used for a first batch of 26 non-Labour held seats which the party has calculated it is worth...
It’s all about the evidence
Labour has just set out on a comprehensive policy review process co-ordinated by Liam Byrne. These full-blown reviews...
Stand for Labour
I'm not going to use this column to make a political point this week. Instead I want to use this soapbox to make a...
Battlelines for 2015?
I don't expect it to get a huge amount of media coverage or to immediately impinge on the public consciousness. But I...
The time for another Kosovo
Murphy said: "If Kosovo were to happen in 2017, so we're out of Afghanistan, I don't want to get into a position where...
How does a winning party make policy?
While there were clearly multiple factors in this (not least the recession, Gordon Brown's personal popularity and a...