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A party of businesses

It has been a bit of rollercoaster ride being general secretary of the Co-operative party over the last three years. The troubles at the Co-operative Bank, the revelations about Paul Flowers and the resulting convulsions within the Co-operative Group have not been...

Change, or we consign ourselves to the wilderness

Earlier this week I attended a breakfast event with Tony Blair. I found him engaging and funny but what struck me most was his view of how the world is changing around us. This was the key message of his speech but it is one point that I fear most will overlook....

The era of top-down politics is over

Liz Kendall has called for power to be devolved to the nations, cities, towns and counties of Britain. Speaking in Brixton this week, she committed to handing power to local communities and evoked the Labour party’s historic tradition of civic leaders, community...

Power itself must be a core Labour principle

Over recent weeks there has been a chorus of people in the Labour party who have decided suggest that anyone who asks difficult or uncomfortable questions is ‘a Tory’. This is not comradely. The Labour movement has always been a broad church capable of holding widely...