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Labour’s historic breakthrough in African-Caribbean representation came 1987 with the election of Bernie Grant, Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Keith Vaz. Along with 23 African-Caribbean and Asian colleagues I was elected as member of parliament for Brent Central in...

I vividly remember the morning of 2 May, 1997. I swung my laughing nine-month old Lucy in the air and sang along with the TV to D:Ream’s ‘Things Can Only Get Better’. So full of excitement, so full of hope. I was 24, and the recent student days of my protest marches...

One of the key warnings from a number of Labour grandees during the leadership race was that a victory for Jeremy Corbyn would make the party unelectable. Without the capacity to gain and use power, so this line of argument went, a drastic change of direction to the...

The first step towards recovery is admitting there is a problem, the second step is trying to address that issue. While the first step is often the hardest – it is usually the catalyst for making change happen. However there is one problem that has been in the...