Section: Progress Magazine Articles

Local Labour must lead the way, says Alison McGovern When the next Labour prime minister chairs their first cabinet meeting in Downing Street, the real experts in government will not be around the table. There will be precious few on Labour’s frontbench who have...

The biggest decision facing Britain for a generation comes before voters at the end of the month. The question is simple: ‘Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?’ The only choice is ‘Remain’ or ‘Leave’. There is no...

‘Say no to pessimism’ – what UK Labour can learn from its local counterparts Almost a year on from the general election, many of the images of that night will be fading from the minds of Labour activists as we turn to face the future. This is largely a good thing – to...

There is nothing inevitable about Labour’s unpopularity with older voters, writes James Morris  When I started doing research for the Labour party in 2003, every focus group was with C1C2 25-55-year-old swing voters. Until, one day in late 2004, my manager asked me to...