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Here we go again. At the first televised hustings, Jeremy Corbyn mounted his moral high horse and won much support for saying that the elephant in the room was Iraq. The invisible pachyderm usually refers to a subject that people keep schtum about. The truth is that...

'Directors of school standards - I mean, is that it? Is that all Labour can offer on education?' Not my words but those of an experienced and exasperated headteacher at a secondary school in Hemel Hempstead, where I stood as Labour’s parliamentary candidate. I was...

May 2015 was the fifth general election I fought as a candidate. I spoke to more voters in this campaign than all the others put together. I shook lots of hands in the ‘blitzing’ sessions of 1997, but that involved little more than ‘thanks for your support’ as the big...

Both of the frontrunners to succeed Boris Johnson have pledged a more open and inclusive politics. Tessa Jowell, who has been a long and lonely advocate for throwing open Labour’s selection processes through the use of primaries, says she wants her party to leave...