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One of the most famous ‘Eurosceptic’ speeches in the last century was delivered by Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell at Labour’s annual conference in October 1962, where he declared that joining the then ‘European Community’ would ‘mean the end of Britain as an independent...

Last night Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson made the trip to London to deliver a lecture on poverty and life chances. The fact this happened at all should give the Labour party across Great Britain pause to think. It was not so much what she said in her...

The Guardian’s story last month about rising membership in the Labour party is welcome news. On 6 May last year, 201,293 people were members of the party. This number is now around the 388,407 mark. It nearly reaches our last high point of 400,000 odd in 1997, before...

I am often asked how I became involved in unions, especially when I was easily the youngest full-time officer in most unions I worked for for nearly 10 years. How is it that I saw the worth and value of unions when I came from a working-class family in the south who...