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Is ‘southern discomfort’ becoming Midlands Misery?

‘You have to realise how much people elsewhere do not like London.’ The admonishment from a frontbencher during the general election campaign explains some of the findings in Lewis Baston’s report ‘Is southern discomfort spreading?’. Although we are rightly proud of...

The emergence of Jeremy Corbyn

Labour politicians sometimes suffer from a deficiency of the eustachian tube: the conduit that connects the nose with the brain. When they smell power their memory goes. This is certainly the case with Jeremy Corbyn when he presents himself as an irenic figure anxious...

Labour need to focus on the future

The Progress West Midlands conference in the West Midlands addressed several of the major issues facing the Labour party at the moment: how Labour can regain its reputation for economic credibility, whether devolution can work for England, whether Britain should leave...

Labour must remain true to our internationalist values

Nothing better encapsulates what the Labour party stands for than the phrase on every membership card – ‘by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more together than we do alone’. It is an abiding principle that sums up our core values of solidarity,...