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Section: Progress Magazine Articles

‘Don’t mourn, organise’

Labour has to start with the fundamental question of purpose, argues Stella Creasy Interviewing Stella Creasy on the street while she is on the move in her Walthamstow constituency feels somehow apt for a member of parliament who entered the House of Commons in 2010...

‘We need a candidate who’s not from a safe seat’

The success of ‘Fortress Exeter’ should show the way for Labour, says Ben Bradshaw As we visit deputy leadership candidate Ben Bradshaw in his Westminster office, ‘Corbynmania’ is at its zenith. The politics of the mob has found new voice in the Labour leadership...

Don’t get angry, get even

Labour went down to a terrible defeat in May. Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein’s post-match analysis was insightful. The ‘shy Tories’ who have long preoccupied pollsters and Labour party strategists are, he said, neither shy nor Tory. They were genuinely undecided,...

Could Labour have stopped Thatcher?

Labour must not leave the field to the Tories as it did in the 1980s The period from Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1979 to Labour’s utter rout in 1983 has come under renewed scrutiny. Moderates have sought to use it as a dire warning of what happens when the Bennites...