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Blackadder star Tony Robinson hits out at Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘leftist clique’
Greg Heffer, Sky News, 16 January 2018
Momentum’s Christine Shawcroft Elected Chair of Labour’s NEC Disputes Panel
Paul Waugh, The Huffington Post, 16 January 2018
Momentum director wins senior position on Labour’s ruling body
The Belfast Telegraph, 16 January 2018
Fresh row as Momentum official replaces veteran chair of Labour disciplinary panel
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 16 January 2018
Progress deputy director joins ‘next generation’ Labour lobbying shop
David Singleton, Public Affairs News, 5 October 2017
Former minister says ‘quite a few’ Tory MPs will now want Theresa May to resign – Politics live
Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian live blog, 5 October 2017
Progress joy as it confirms funding until 2020
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 5 October 2017
Richard Angell: ‘Totally bizarre’ that Brexit not being discussed
Richard Angell, Channel 4 News, 25 September 2017
Labour activist Richard Angell says anyone guilty of abusing Laura Kuennsberg should be kicked out
Richard Angell, talkRADIO, 25 September 2017
Corbyn says he is wary of committing to stay in European single market
Jessica Elgot, The Guardian, 25 September 2017
Corbyn camp blocks Brexit vote
Jim Pickard, The Financial Times, 25 September 2017
Labour MP brands own party a ‘laughing stock’ for failure to debate Brexit
Rob Merrick, The Independent, 25 September 2017
Labour divisions exposed as conference vote on Brexit ruled out
BT, 25 September 2017
Pro-EU MPs left furious as Labour conference votes not to have a debate on Brexit
Dan Bloom, The Mirror, 25 September 2017
Revealed: The left’s top 100 power list
LabourList, 25 September 2017
Corbyn’s Labour must avoid the fate of Hollande’s Parti Socialiste
Richard Angell, Foundation for European Progressive Studies, 21 September 2017
Boris, Brexit and the Labour party
Anushka Ashthana, Guardian Politics Weekly podcast, 20 September 2017
Jeremy Corbyn unveils ‘power grab’ to strengthen the left’s grip on Labour party
Joe Murphy, Evening Standard, 20 September 2017
Revolution at the NEC slashes the odds on a leftwing successor to Corbyn
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 20 September 2017
Labour rule changes backed by ruling NEC
BBC News, 19 September 2017
Labour review to ask NEC to agree more power for members
Jessica Elgot, The Guardian, 19 September 2017
Marginalising Labour MPs will do nothing to put the government on the back foot
Richard Angell, Huffington Post, 15 September 2017
Labour leadership contenders could make the ballot without any support from MPs
Emma Bean, LabourList, 15 September 2017
The 2017 manifesto, not divisive rule changes, should be the star of Labour’s conference
Richard Angell, Huffington Post, 11 September 2017
Momentum plotting to ‘storm’ party conference in ‘attack on social democracy’, says Labour MP
Ned Simons, Huffington Post, 12 September 2017
Momentum trying to ‘storm’ Labour conference, MP tells centre-left activists
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 12 September 2017
Labour centrists urge members to oppose leftwing rule changes
Jessica Elgot, The Guardian, 12 September 2017
Labour could keep Britain in the single market and signed up to EU rules permanently, claims shadow minister
Alain Tolhurst, The Sun, 29 August 2017
Labour must make the single market shift permanent – it’s what the membership and our voters want
Richard Angell, LabourList, 28 August 2017
Discrediting the centre-left is no way to beat the right
Richard Angell, Huffington Post, 15 August 2017
Former Blair aide and Owen Jones slap down calls for new centrist party
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 9 August 2017
Government ‘naive’ in expecting 21,000 recruits to join bruised sector
Mental Health Today, 3 August 2017
The quiet civil war for control of the Labour grassroots machine
Marie Le Conte, Newstatesman, 21 July 2017
Tony Blair: Must we love him or loathe him? Don Brind says no
Don Brind, Political Betting, 17 July 2017
Corbyn critics win election to Labour parliamentary committee
Rowena Mason, The Guardian, 7 July 2017
Jeremy Corbyn needs to end the intimidation of Labour MPs, says director of centrist pro-Labour pressure group
Amy Southall, talkRADIO, 6 July 2017
Britain’s turn to the left?
Simon Veazey, The Epoch Times, 6 July 2017
Progress has been a force for good and the party needs it
Rob Marchant, Labour Uncut, 4 July 2017
Centrist Labour think tank Progress could close because of £180,000 funding shortfall
Will Worley, The Independent, 28 June 2017
Corbyn-sceptic think tank on brink on collapse
Lee Harpin, Jewish Chronicle, 26 June 2017
Paul Mason comes out fighting at Progress amid boos over attack on Labour HQ
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 24 June 2017
Watch: Paul Mason turns on the Blairites at Progress event – ‘form your own party then’
Steerpike, The Spectator, 24 June 2017
Thornberry lays into illegitimate government at Progress conference
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 24 June 2017
‘Hundreds’ died in Grenfell Tower fire, says shadow home secretary Diane Abbott
Shebab Khan, The Independent, 24 June 2017
Grenfell scandal reeks of the worst of Britain – Alison McGovern speech
Alison McGovern MP, LabourList, 24 June 2017
Momentum should be proud of their innovation: Progress welcoming address
Richard Angell, LabourList, 24 June 2017
Love it or loathe it, Progress is here to stay despite Sainsbury funding shock
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 23 June 2017
The UK’s biggest political donor, Lord David Sainsbury, has quit politics for charitable giving
Helen Cahill, City AM, 23 June 2017
Lord Sainsbury pulls funding from Progress and other political causes
Julia Rampen, New Statesman, 23 June 2017
Billionaire supermarket tycoon cancels funding for Progress
Emma Bean, LabourList, 23 June 2017
UK’s biggest political donor, Lord Sainsbury, to end his contributions
Heather Stewart, The Guardian, 23 June 2017
Abbott, Thornberry and Kendall to appear at Progress conference
Emma Bean, LabourList, 22 June 2017
Terrorists won’t keep us off the streets, witness tells LBC
Matt Stadlen, LBC, 4 June 2017
Witness describes scenes of panic during Borough Market incident
Hannah Al-Othman, Buzzfeed, 4 June 2017
Labour’s surge is giving the Tories a fright
The Economist, 1 June 2017
Progress #Lab3seats challenge in Darlington
The World This Weekend, BBC Radio 4, 28 May 2017
Blairites embark on final push to defend nine MPs in iconic northern seats
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 25 May 2017
Bean over Britain: It was a wet weekend in Wales but activists are fired up to defend this dedicated Labour MP
Emma Bean, LabourList, 22 May 2017
Momentum, Progress and Labour First hit the doorstep to support candidates
Emma Bean, LabourList, 9 May 2017
Here’s why Leavers won’t change their mind
Daniel Finkelstein, The Times, 12 April 2017
Progress joins forces with ex-ministers to mount sustained defence of ‘incredible’ Labour government
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 11 April 2017
Tom Watson to headline Progress conference with keynote speech
Emma Bean, LabourList, 10 April 2017
Blair lambasts Corbyn for ‘failing the British people’ as he complains that Labour is giving the Tories ‘zero’ cause for concern
James Tapsfield, The Daily Mail, 3 April 2017
Tony Blair: Jeremy Corbyn ‘zero threat’ to UK government
Cynthia Kroet, Politico, 3 April 2017
Tony Blair says Labour has failed as his comeback continues
James Millar, Total Politics, 3 April 2017
Blair: Failing Tories spend no time worrying about the threat from Labour
Emma Bean, LabourList, 3 April 2017
Tony Blair: ‘Ultra-left’ takeover of Labour means Tories do not fear opposition
Ned Simons, Huffington Post, 3 April 2017
Tony Blair: Labour under Jeremy Corbyn is failing the British people
Kevin Schofield, Politics Home, 3 April 2017
Labour must hold Brexit Britain together
Richard Angell, Portland, 17 March 2017
Brexit Briefing
Victoria Dean, Portland, 17 March 2017
No Easy Answers
Daniel Finn, Jacobin, 7 March 2017
Corbyn Appoints New Campaign Chief to Replace Simon Fletcher
Richard Angell, Labour Vision, 4 March 2017
How can Labour reunite?
Anushka Asthana, Guardian Politics Weekly podcast, 3 March 2017
The tide has turned against Team Corbyn
Matt Chorley, Times red box editor, 3 March 2017
‘No place to hide’ Labour would force taxpayers who earn more than £1million per year to release their tax records, John McDonnell vows
Natasha Clark, the Sun, 2 March 2017
Corbyn team willing to take advice from Mandelson and Progress for sake of Labour unity, says McDonnell
Andrew Sparrow, Guardian politics live, 2 March 2017
Corbyn’s team open to advice from Progress and Mandelson, says McDonnell
Emma Bean, Labour List, 2 March 2017
McDonnell accepts there is no soft coup
Barry Gardiner, Daily Politics, 27 February 2017
McDonnell reaches out to Progress
John McDonnell, Pienarr’s Politics, 26 February 2017
How do you win as a radical left party when the working class are not as radical as you?
Paul Mason, Andrew Marr Show, 26 February 2017
Populist wave falls short in ‘Brexit capital of Britain,’ but Labour’s troubles deepen
Griff White, Washington Post, 24 February
The five things you need to know about the Copeland and Stoke Central by-elections
The Waugh Zone, Huffington Post, 24 February 2017
Corbyn vows to speak up for the regions as he defends his leadership
Editorial, Yorkshire Post, 24 February 2017
Less Charlie Kennedy and more George Galloway
Richard Angell, Huffington Post, 21 February 2017
Is the ‘McDonnell amendment’ a better choice for Labour or simply a recipe for electoral disaster?
Ben Gartside, LabourList, 20 February 2017
The McDonnell Amendment: Richard Angell vs. Chris Williamson
Labour Vision, 15 February 2017
Corbyn’s Labour critics organise locally to prevent leftist successor
Heather Stewart, The Guardian, 12 February 2017
Momentum and Progress to join the Labour doorstep in by-election campaigns
Emma Bean, LabourList, 3 February 2017
Jeremy Corbyn’s shambolic power grab in Copeland would put New Labour to shame
Richard Angell, The Telegraph, 20 January 2017
Will Momentum be able to affiliate to Labour?
George Eaton, The Guardian, 11 January 2017
Momentum in bitter war of words over any move to affiliate with Labour
Jessica Elgot, The Guardian, 11 January 2017
Former Labour cabinet minister tells Corbyn team – ‘get your arses in gear’
Jon Ashmore, Politics Home, 11 January 2017
Labour members urged to reject plan for lower leadership threshold
Jessica Elgot, Guardian, 1 January 2017
Jeremy Corbyn wades into Momentum row with unity plea
Kevin Schofield, Politics Home, 21 December 2016
Jeremy Corbyn has led Labour to a historic low, says prominent centrist
Gareth Platt, TalkRadio, 12 December 2016
Unite leader’s aide leaves Communist party to join Labour
Daniel Boffey, The Guardian 10 December 2016
Wetherspoons, Rupert Murdoch and 7 more big spenders in the EU referendum
Dan Bloom, the Mirror, 29 November 2016
Benn at risk as vengeful hard left seizes seat
Andrew Gilligan, Sunday Times, 20 November 106
David Cameron dubbed a Brexit ‘villain’ in row
James Millar, PoliticsHome, 7 November 2016
Jeremy Corbyn insists allies must stay in frontbench jobs
Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 1 October 2016
Friday’s national newspaper front pages
Sky News, 27 October 2016
What will Labour’s awkward squad do next?
Julia Rampen, New Statesman, 27 September 2016
Pleas made for Jewish Labour supporters to remain in the party
Justin Cohen, Jewish News, 26 September 2016
We must stay and fight Jeremy Corbyn if he wins Labour leadership contest, says Blairite pressure group
Amy Southall, talkRADIO, 23 September 2016
‘If we stay, if we fight’ – Progress issues defiant message to members as Corbyn stands on the brink of re-election
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 22 September 2016
Progress urges Jeremy Corbyn critics to ‘stay and fight’ if leader wins again
Heather Stewart, The Guardian, 22 September 2016
EXCL Jeremy Corbyn criticised after appearing with anti-Semitism row activist
Emilio Casalicchio, Politics Home, 6 September 2016
The BMA has been a pain for 70 years!
Andrew Pearce, the Daily Mail, 5 September 2016
Brexit means Brexit – and that there will be no debate on freedom of movement
John Rentoul, The Independent, 3 September 2016
Factional tensions increase as Progress director accuses Momentum of ‘asset-stripping the Labour party’
Sarah Pine, LabourList, 1 September 2016
‘This isn’t bloody funny’: JK Rowling laments Corbyn’s strong position
The Guardian, 31 August 2016
The first big battle for the new leader will take place at conference
Luke Akehurst, LabourList, 24 August 2016
Scottish Labour leader backs Owen Smith against Jeremy Corbyn
Damien Gayle, The Guardian, 22 August 2016
A key part of Tom Watson’s ‘Trotsky’ evidence comes from Labour’s leading rightwing thinktank
Solomon Hughes, Vice, 19 August 2016
Jeremy Corbyn allies sweep to victory on Labour’s NEC
Stephen Bush, New Statesman, 8 August 2016
Labour activists clash over Corbyn
Richard Angell, LBC, 23 July 2016
Anti-Corbyn campaigners are recruiting lapsed members – but is it legal?
Julia Rampen, New Statesman, 18 July 2016
Labour’s moderates need a single unity candidate by 5pm tonight
Richard Angell, Times Red Box, 18 July 2016
Now more than ever, Labour and the country need a pro-European leader
Richard Angell, Huffington Post, 13 July 2016
Eagle challenges Corbyn
Richard Angell, Channel 4 News, 10 July 2016
Brexit prolongs austerity but Labour’s brilliant local leaders will help communities survive
Richard Angell, LabourList, 8 July 2016
Corbyn pledges ‘ambitious and bold’ policies to beat the Tories in 2020
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 18 May 2016
What did Corbyn’s Progress speech say about the local election results?
Leon Spence, Huffington Post, 17 May 2016
Labour MP addresses controversial ‘losing leader’ comments
Angelika Rusbridge, Brighton and Hove Independent, 16 May 2016
The Progress Annual Conference
Paul Burgin, 16 May 2016
Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to Progress
A Very Public Sociologist, 15 May 2016
Labour, Progress, Jeremy Corbyn and the future!
Tim Carter, Middle Vision, 16 May 2016
Sanitising the truth is little use to anyone – that’s why Progress is so important
Alison McGovern MP, LabourList, 14 May 2016
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses Progress conference
BBC News, 14 May 2016
Jeremy Corbyn to speak at conference of New Labour group Progress
Jon Stone, The Independent, 14 May 2016
Mr Corbyn goes to Progress. Is this a telling off or a truce?
Peter Edwards, LabourList, 13 May 2016
Jeremy Corbyn in surprise move to address Progress conference
Conor Pope, LabourList, 13 May 2016
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to address Progress conference
BBC News, 13 May 2016
Jeremy Corbyn hasn’t got an ‘antisemitism problem’. His opponents do.
Jamie Stern-Weiner, Open Labour, 27 April 2016
Jeremy Corbyn faces his first elections and everyone expects Labour to lose
Jim Waterson, Buzzfeed, 4 May 2016
Glen Owen, The Daily Mail, 1 May 2016
Who’s in charge here? – Review of Alison McGovern’s “Governing Britain” interview
Think Tank Review, 24 April 2016
Loss of a single council would be betrayal of people, says Labour MP
Rowena Mason and Heather Stewart, The Guardian, 21 April 2016
Tackling Tax – Young Fabians
Louie Woodall, Young Fabians, 19 April 2016
Brett would leave Welsh farmers ‘high and dry’, warns Nia Griffith
Farming Life, 14 April 2016
Burnham’s warning
Paul Waugh, The Waugh Zone, 11 April 2016
We need this action plan to tackle antisemitism within Labour
Richard Angell, LabourList, 6 April 2016
Eight steps Labour needs to take to tackle antisemitism in its ranks
Richard Angell, Daily Mirror, 5 April 2016
Pressure group launches plan to tackle antisemitism inside Labour
Aidan Kerr, STV, 5 April 2016
Is arrogance necessary for politics?
Alison McGovern MP, 2 April 2016
Labour under pressure to launch inquiry over youth vote row
LabourList, 29 February 2016
How I got my political mojo back
Michael Taylor, The Marple Leaf, 9 February 2016
Labour and infrastructure
Tom Powdrill, Labour and Capital, 7 February 2016
Power to the moderates
Middle Vision, 4 February 2016
Don’t blame the media
Chris Dillow, Stumbling and Mumbling, 28 January 2016
10 unanswered questions from the Beckett report
Richard Angell, New Statesman, 26 January 2016
Leaked secret report spells trouble for ‘appalling’ Labour
LabourList, 25 January 2016
Labour is a great and good party and no Tory should celebrate its current plight
Tim Montgomerie, CapX, 18 January 2016
‘Spend £41bn on nuclear subs? That cash could improve flood defences’
Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester, The Times, 16 January 2016
Dancing round the May poll
Paul Waugh, Huffington Post, 15 January 2016
Labour is worth saving now, but by 2020 …
Stephen Daisley, The Times, 14 January 2016
Londoner’s diary: Lefties fight it out on the mean streets of Ealing
London Evening Standard, 12 January 2016
No one in Labour is a Trot – or a Tory for that matter
Alexander Chai, New Statesman, 12 January 2016
Alison McGovern: Why I resigned from Labour’s leadership team
Liverpool Echo, 10 January 2016
In sorrow – and in my own words – this is what happened this week:
Alison McGovern, 10 January 2016
Labour Party split: Can they still work together?
BBC Sunday Politics, 10 January 2016
Powell: McDonnell’s ‘hard-right’ comments weren’t helpful
BBC Sunday Politics, 10 January 2016
Labour’s Ian Murray critical of John McDonnell on Progress
BBC News, 10 January 2016
Corbyn’s reshuffle shambles have made the divisions in Labour even worse
Ian Birrell, The Independent, 10 January 2016
John McDonnell’s labelling of Progress as ‘conservative’ was an insult to our Labour values
Alison McGovern, The Independent, 8 January 2016
Reshuffle ‘got rid of undermining elements’ – John McDonnell
Channel 4 News, 6 January 2016
BBC Radio 4 PM
BBC Radio 4, 6 January 2016
Jeremy Corbyn reshuffle: John McDonnell dismisses Labour shadow ministers who resigned as ‘narrow right-wing clique’
The Independent, 6 January 2016
What to expect in 2016
Richard Angell, Maitland Political Insight, 6 January 2016
Star Wars and Labour show that old ideas never die
James Millar, Sunday Post, 21 December 2015
Modernising markets
Richard Angell, Huffington Post, 11 December 2015
Irrelevant to the real needs
Emma Burnell, LabourList, 10 December 2015
Recently retired households have greater share of UK wealth than under-45s
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 10 December 2015
Labour activists launch a new group on party’s left
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 9 December 2015
Lucy Powell: ‘We shouldn’t just sit in my office saying scrap this, scrap that’
Peter Wilby, The Guardian, 8 December 2015
My evening with McDonnell and Momentum – and yes, it’s all about deselections
Mark Wallace, ConservativeHome, 4 December 2015
Dan Jarvis wants Jeremy Corbyn’s job, but he can’t be involved in any coup to overthrow the Labour leader
Jane Merrick, Independent on Sunday, 29 November 2015
Britain’s Labour party battles for soul and identity
Elizabeth Piper, 28 November 2015, Reuters
Andy McSmith’s Diary: Labour’s female MPs wary of George Galloway’s ‘ugly track record’
Andy McSmith, The Independent, 12 November 2015
Galloway ‘won’t return to Labour’, Corbyn tells MP
Josh May, PoliticsHome, 12 November 2015
George Galloway’s return to Labour would cause an ‘almighty revolt’ warns MP
Owen Bennett, Huffington Post, 12 November 2015
MP warns of ‘almighty revolt’ should Galloway return to Labour party
Sun Nation, 12 November 2015
Jeremy Corbyn does not want George Galloway to rejoin, says Labour MP Dawn Butler
George Eaton, New Statesman, 12 November 2015
Corbyn says no way to Galloway
David Singleton, Total Politics, 12 November 2015
Three reasons why Labour could struggle to win in 2020 – and it’s nothing to do with Corbyn
Natasha Clark, The Times, 12 November 2015
Blairites, Brownites, Corbyn refuseniks. Where do the New Labour tribes go next?
Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian, 11 November 2015
Daily catch-up: what if Corbyn became ‘permanently unavailable’?
John Rentoul, The Independent, 10 November 2015
Who the leader’s office appoints reflects the whole party
Luke Akehurst, LabourList, 10 November 2015
The alternative to common sense and self-control is civil war
Steve Turner, LabourList, 9 November 2015
Politics is inward looking and self-obsessed. It’s time to change it
Alison McGovern, The Mirror, 2 November 2015
The fight for Labour’s soul is just beginning
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 2 November 2015
Alison McGovern becomes first female Progress chair … and calls on Corbyn not to ignore Blairites
David Singleton, Total Politics, 30 October 2015
Corbyn’s good week
The Waugh Zone, 30 October 2015
Alison McGovern announced as new Progress chair
LabourList, 29 October 2015
The last Labour government must be ‘put to bed’, says Progress
LabourList, 29 October 2015
Bedtime for Blair
The Waugh Zone, 29 October 2015
Labour MPs are worried about Momentum. Should they be?
Stephen Bush, New Statesman, 26 October 2015
The new Labour politics will be about seizing power – inside the party
Rafael Behr, The Guardian, 23 October 2015
Labour’s warring factions: who do they include and what are they fighting over?
Anoosh Chakelian, New Statesman, 23 October 2015
Next May’s elections will be the test for Corbyn. If he fails, its up to the PLP to act
David Talbot, LabourUncut, 22 October 2015
What next for Labour’s moderates? Start winning people round
David Ward, LabourUncut, 22 October 2015
New group Labour Together to be launched
George Eaton, New Statesman, 21 October 2015
Labour MP Jamie Reed hits out at ‘attempted hostile takeover of new ‘Momentum’ group by far left entryists
Owen Bennett, Huffington Post, 16 October 2015
Pro-Corbyn group Momentum vows to resist SWP ‘infiltration’
George Eaton, New Statesman, 16 October 2015
Labour MPs alarmed by pro-Corbyn activist group
Jim Pickard, Financial Times, 12 October 2015
Jeremy Corbyn now has his own Praetorian Guard inside the Labour party
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 9 October 2015
Today programme at Labour party conference
BBC Radio 4, 28 September 2015 at 7.30am
Tristram Hunt says Labour members are ‘feeling like the inside of a pig’s head’
Emily Ashton, BuzzFeed, 27 September 2015
Blairites feel like the ‘inside of a pig’s head’, says Tristram Hunt
Ned Simons, Huffington Post, 27 September 2015
Liz Kendall warns of ‘gulf’ between Labour and the public
Josh May, Total Politics, 27 September 20015
Labour moderates warns Corbyn party must be clear on policy
Patrick Wintour and Rajeev Syal, The Guardian, 27 September 2015
Blairites play the long game as they head into ‘the unknown’
Total Politics, 25 September 2015
Modernising Modernisers
Richard Angell, Huffington Post, 25 September 2015
‘New Labour is over’ –Progress calls for new modernisation process
LabourList, 25 September 2015
The Waugh Zone September 25, 2015
Ned Simons, Huffington Post, 25 September 2015
Mandelson: it’s too early to force Jeremy Corbyn out
Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 25 September 2015
An outsider inside
Jim Pickard, The Financial Times, 1 October 2015
Up to eight in shadow cabinet may refuse to serve with Corbyn
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 8 September 2015
Make no mistake, Labour is at war with itself
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 7 September 2015
Jeremy Corbyn critics told not to ‘disrupt’ his leadership
Ned Simons, The Huffington Post, 7 September 2015
Harriet Harman: Labour must unite behind new leader
Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 6 September 2015
Labour warned against Jeremy Corbyn backlash
Scott Macnab, The Scotsman, 6 September 2015
Aide’s firm ‘to help Corbyn purge MPs’
James Lyons, The Sunday Times, 6 September 2015
Tristram Hunt: There will be no Labour split
LabourList, 5 September 2015
Labour must stay loyal to Jeremy Corbyn if he’s made leader, says Blairite MP Tristram Hunt
Jack Blanchard, The Mirror, 4 September 2015
Why Labour’s electoral dilemma strikes at the heart of the country
Lewis Baston, Birmingham Post, 3 September 2015
Theresa May is the Tory leader Labour should fear
Jacqui Smith, 1 September 2015
Sajid Javid could be the sign the electorate is looking for that the Tory party has shed its ‘nasty party’ reputation
Felicity Slater, LabourList, 30 August 2015
Ed Miliband not to blame for Jeremy Corbyn’s rise, says former aide
Rowena Mason, 28 August 2015
Nicola Sturgeon hits back at Tony Blair’s SNP ‘cavemen’ jibe
Emilio Casalicchio, 28 August 2015
If Corbyn wins next month, walking away simply isn’t an option
Sam Stopp, 24 August 2015
Who Is Worse For Britain – Blair Or Corbyn? Russell Brand The Trews (E364)
Russell Brand
Guest editorial: factionalism in the parliamentary Labour party and the 2015 leadership contest
Hugh Pemberton and Mark Wickham Jones, August 2015
Labour leadership contest: Whether Jeremy Corbyn wins or not, Labour faces a long time out of power
Andrew Grice, 14 August 2015
The Blairites have forgotten how to win
Ian Leslie, 12 August 2015
Liz Kendall profile: ‘I don’t want to protest. I want to get into power’
Robert Booth, 10 August 2015
More than a thousand Polish expatriates to donate blood in solidarity bid with Britons
Jonathan Owen, 10 August 2015
Jeremy Corbyn could be the result of Labour’s democratic experiment
Patrick Wintour, 9 August 2015
Richard Angell on BBC News: Should Labour restore ‘Clause IV’?
BBC News, 9 August 2015
‘Jeremy Corbyn Is Not Hard-Left, Just Anti-Thatcherism’ Claims Labour MP In Economic Row
Owen Bennett, 3 August 2015
What the Labour right should do now
Jonathan Todd, 3 August 2015
Labour First call on Progress to recommend transfer votes to stop Corbyn
LabourList, 27 July 2015
L’autunno del premier tra sogni fiscali e papà Blair
Eugenio Scalfari, Repubblica, 26 July 2015
How Labour put its Foot in its future
James Lyons, The Sunday Times, 26 July 2015
Blair this week – correct in every possible way
Michael Taylor, The Marple Leaf, 24 July 2o15
The rival factions at war over Labour’s leadership contest
Hugh Pemberton and Mark Wickham-Jones, The Spectator, 24 July 2015
One eye throbbing, he kept lapsing into aw-shucks burbles: Quentin Letts sees Tony preach to the faithful
Quentin Letts, Daily Mail, 23 July 2015
The last thing Labour needs is a leader like Jeremy Corbyn who people want to vote for
Mark Steel, The Independent, 23 July 2015
Is the Labour Party finished?
Chris Deerin, Capx, 23 July 2015
This was the week the Labour leadership contest turned nasty
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 23 July 2015
Steve Bell on Tony Blair entering the Labour leadership debate – cartoon
Steve Bell, The Guardian, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair: Labour must not assume ‘electorate is stupid’
BBC News, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair warns against moving left as Jeremy Corbyn leads poll
BBC News, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair warns Labour against path of “traditional leftism”
Jack Pusey, Digital Look, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair warns Labour over shift to the left
Daily Mail, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair: ‘People who say their heart is with Jeremy Corbyn – get a transplant!’
Ian Silvera, International Business Times, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair on Jeremy Corbyn and the future of Labour: Former Prime Minister’s speech in full
Lizzie Dearden, The Independent, 22 July 2015
Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters are ‘reactionary’ says Tony Blair
Jon Stone, The Independent, 22 July 2015
Here’s what Tony Blair has to say about about the Labour leadership race
Evan Bartlett, The Independent, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair’s speech ‘will be like dry wood on the raging Labour fire’
Chris Ship, ITV News, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair attacks Jeremy Corbyn as poll puts him on course to become Labour leader
ITV News, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair’s speech on the future of the Labour party in full
The Guardian, 22 July 2015
Blair urges Labour not to wrap itself in a Jeremy Corbyn comfort blanket
Patrick Wintour and Frances Perraudin, The Guardian, 22 July 2015
Blair condemns Corbyn as Corbyn sets out his economic policies
Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 22 July 2015
“We can win again.” – Full text of Tony Blair’s speech on Labour’s future
LabourList, 22 July 2015
Blair warns Labour against ‘traditional leftism’ – not for power, but on principle
LabourList, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair begs Labour members whose heart is with Jeremy Corbyn to ‘get a transplant’
Jack Blanchard, Mirror, 22 July 2015
Labour’s Corbyn Says Blair Attack ‘Silly’
Sky News, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair warns Labour against “a traditional leftist platform”
Stephen Bush, New Statesman, 22 July 2015
Jeremy Corbyn hits back at Tony Blair’s ‘silly remarks’
Emilio Casalicchio, Politics Home, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair: Labour must avoid ‘traditional leftist’ platform
Emilio Casalicchio, Politics Home, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair warns against ‘traditional leftist’ platform
Politics Home, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair set to warn Labour against lurch to the left
Emilio Casalicchio, Politics Home, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair criticises Jeremy Corbyn’s leftwing politics as he insists Labour ‘cannot win’ from a leftist platform
Joseph Watts, Evening Standard, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair: Labour could spend 20 years out of power if Jeremy Corbyn wins
Michael Wilkinson, Daily Telegraph, 22 July 2015
Tony Blair to warn Labour against lurching to left
Steven Swinford, Daily Telegraph, 22 July 2015
Labour war as Corbyn closes in on leadership
Sam Coates, The Times, 22 July 2015
Labour leader: Blair steps in as YouGov puts Corbyn ahead
The Week, 22 July 2015
Revealed: Tony Blair holding secret talks with Labour MPs to lift party out of its ‘day-to-day despair’
Tom McTague, Daily Mail, 14 July 2015
Mary Creagh says failure to act in Syria ‘opened the door to Isis’
LabourList, 6 July 2015
Leadership rivals unite for Trident
Francis Elliott, The Times, 6 June 2015
Every major leadership candidate backs Trident renewal
Ben Riley-Smith, Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2015
Labour fears as Zac Goldsmith is tipped to run for mayor of London
Joe Murphy, Evening Standard, 4 June 2015
Sainsbury to mastermind pro-Europe campaign
Sam Coates, The Times, 3 June 2015
Andy Burnham comes out in favour of open primaries for selecting parliamentary candidates
LabourList, 3 June 2015
Andy Burnham pushes Labour to set up separate pro-European Union campaign
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 2 June 2015
Progressives want to mend, not end, the link
Richard Angell, LabourList, 26 May 2015
Labour has to wake up fast, or go the way of the hedgehog
Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2015
If you didn’t see defeat coming you don’t know how politics works
Ian McKenzie, Labour Uncut, 19 May 2015
Labour does not need uniformity but unity
Luke Akehurst, LabourList, 19 May 2015
Labour should embrace the smarter state, not the bigger state
Richard Carr, Left Foot Forward, 19 May 2015
Labour’s choice is only between differing shades of Blairite
Adam Bienkov, Politics.co.uk, 18 May 2015
What can we learn from the first showdown of Labour’s leadership hopefuls
Ellie Groves, Young Fabians, 18 May 2015
Labour leadership election: which candidates have what it takes to head the party
Toby Helm, The Observer, 17 May 2015
A modern Labour party must shake off the unions
Sunday Telegraph, 17 May 2015
Labour leadership: Battle lines are drawn as members battle over party’s ideology at first hustings of the contest
Jane Merrick, The Independent, 17 May 2015
Labour leadership candidates have one thing in common – they all went to Oxbridge
Andy Withnall, The Independent, 17 May 2015
One eye on the future, Euan? Blair’s son watches as Labour leadership battle hots up
Stephanie Linning, Daily Mail, 16 May 2015
Andy Burnham: Deficit was ‘too large’ when Labour was in government
Emily Godsen, The Telegraph, 16 May 2015
Hunt: ‘No rush’ to announce Labour leadership candidacy
ITV News, 16 May 2015
Labour leadership: Contenders address Progress conference
BBC News, 16 May 2015
Labour leadership: Contenders debate record on spending
BBC News 16 May 2015
Labour leadership contenders to address party activists
Press Association, Guardian, 16 May 2015
Is the first Labour leadership hustings tomorrow?
LabourList, 15 May 2015
Labour has to be honest about the hole that it’s in
Richard Angell, New Statesman, 15 May 2015
Labour’s defeat was the inevitable consequence of the politics of delusion
Robert Philpot, New Statesman, 15 May 2015
You can hear the corks popping at Progress HQ – This is a battle for Labour’s very soul
John Wight, Morning Star, 14 May 2015
What does Liz Kendall believe?
David Butler, Labour Uncut, 14 May 2015
Now is not the time for timidity
Richard Angell, LabourList, 14 May 2015
Four women who could make the difference for any Labour leadership campaign
Richard Angell, Labour Uncut, 14 May 2015
UK Labour has some radical and interesting policy offers, says Richard Angell from Labour pressure group Progress
ABC News Radio, 8 May 2015
For Labour the next five years need to be about hope not scaremongering
Leon Spence, Whitwick and Thringstone News, 10 May 2015
Social justice in changing times
Anthony Painter, LabourList, 9 May 2015
UK Labour has some radical and interesting policy offers, says Richard Angell from Labour pressure group Progress
ABC News Radio, 8 May 2015
The seats where Tories weren’t blue and Labour wasn’t red
Jon Kelly, BBC News Magazine, 3 May 2015
Can steely Dan Jarvis be the next Labour leader?
Dan Hodges, The Telegraph, 30 March 2015
John McDonnell: Miliband will have to backtrack on spending cuts
George Eaton, New Statesman, 30 March 2015
Scottish Labour accused of ‘giving up’ in key election marginals
Paul Hutcheon, Herald Scotland, 29 March 2015
#Lab7Scots challenge – 7 constituencies in 2 days
Labour Hame, 29 March 2015
Who wants to be a millionaire? Peter Oborne on Tony Blair
Peter Oborne, New Statesman, 19 March 2015
Politicians have to stop pretending they have the answers – and start helping people find their own
Liz Kendall MP and Steve Reed MP, New Statesman, 17 March 2015
Steve Reed: ‘The biggest ideas are coming out of local government’
Stephen Bush, New Statesman, 11 March 2015
Blair’s vicious secret war on Red Ed: The great untold story of the Miliband years is revealed in devastating new book
Francis Beckett, David Henke and Nick Kochan, Daily Mail, 11 March 2015
Hunt gets backing from key Blairite
David Singleton, Politics Home, 11 March 2015
Miliband ‘puts £1.5m at risk’ in war with union
James Lyons, The Sunday Times, 8 March 2015
Labour imposes deadline to register for vote on London mayoral candidate
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 6 March 2015
Chuka’s away
Paul Waugh, The House, 5 March 2015
Tony Blair donates £1,000 to each Labour candidate in target seats
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 4 March 2015
Whatever happened to the Ukip of tomorrow?
Conor Pope, LabourList, 4 March 2015
Private equity bosses using £700m tax ‘loophole’ – and donating to the Tories
Chris Green, The Independent, 19 February 2015
Comment: Lessons from Labour history
Richard Carr, Left Foot Forward, 9 February 2015
Let it go
Patrick Diamond, 5 February 2015
As the general election draws closer, Blue Labour has a non-Miliband manifesto waiting in the wings
Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph, 4 February 2015
Optimism and relationships are in Labour’s DNA
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 3 February 2015
Labour keeps it local
Dan Holden, Shifting Grounds, 30 January 2015
Labour-led government ‘must let people shape public services they use’
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 29 January 2015
Stop the sniping, start uniting Kinnock tells warring Labour
Michael Savage, The Times, 29 January 2015
Labour suffers further blows on NHS
Laura Donnelly and Peter Dominiczak, 29 January 2015
Labour big beasts savage Ed: Milburn and Hutton accuse Miliband of betraying the Blair legacy before Prescott hits back
James Chapman, The Daily Mail, 29 January 2015
Meet the man who should lead Labour after Ed Miliband
James Kirkup, The Telegraph, 23 January 2015
A voter registration drive? It should have started three years ago (when Miliband said it would)
Mark Ferguson, Labour List, 16 January 2015
Cameron and Miliband should cherish this moment of unity in their parties – it will not last
George Eaton, New Statesman, 14 January 2015
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
Stefan Stern, Labour List, 05 January 2015
Tony Blair denies report saying Ed Miliband can’t win 2015 election
Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason, The Guardian, 31 December 2014
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4, 31 December 2014
If we are all Labour Uncutters now, let’s do this properly
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 15 December 2014
The spirit of the thirties lends Ed Miliband a withered hand
John Rentoul, Independent on Sunday, 14 December 2014
Daily catch-up: a conversation with the Blairite candidate; and the politics of hope
John Rentoul, The Independent, 10 December 2014
Immigration discussed in UK as if a disease, says shadow minister
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 30 November 2014
Labour aide heaps praise on Osborne
Sam Coates, The Times, 27 November 2014
George Osborne to give more power to Sheffield and Leeds
Jim Pickard and Andrew Bounds, Financial Times, 26 November 2014
Jon Cruddas praises Tory adoption of Labour’s cities agenda
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 26 November 2014
MP’s ‘need to get out on the doorsteps’
The Courier, 26 November 2014
Hodge critical of career MPs with little life experience
Gavin Cordon, The Herald, 25 November 2014
The New Labour project effectively and profoundly changed the Labour Party
Lillia Giugni, LSE British Politics and Policy blog, 14 November 2014
Common’s Confidential: Ed’s accusing finger
Kevin Maguire, New Statesman, 13 November 2014
Now a shadow minister plunges in the dagger : Tristram Hunt joins Labour revolt… as polls say that Miliband is a liability
Simon Walters, Mail on Sunday, 9 November 2014
Get a grip, loyal Johnson tells the plotters… I’m backing Ed
Michael Savage, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thompson, The Times, 8 November 2014
Conservatives snatch first poll lead in six months as Ed Miliband’s woes worsen
Christopher Hope and Tim Ross, Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2014
Why is Miliband struggling where Kinnock prospered?
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 4 November 2014
Tony Blair warns leaders to stand up and defeat ‘nasty’ Ukip
The Times, 30 October 2014
Miliband warned on Ukip approach
Belfast Telegraph, 30 October 2014
Tony Blair: Britain should listen to my views on war
Huffington Post, 30 October 2014
Tony Blair: Labour should take fight to Ukio rather than ‘chasing after’ anti-immigration policies
The Telegraph, 30 October 2014
Tristram Hunt: Labour may not get ‘full mandate’ in 2015
Ned Simons, Huffington Post, 29 October 2014
Ofsted should inspect religious teaching in faith schools, says Tristram Hunt
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 29 October 2014
Miliband to sharpen Europe strategy as Cameron hardens on immigration
Nicholas Watt, Rowena Mason, Phillip Inman, The Guardian, 21 October 2014
Former minister Pat McFadden gets Europe brief in Labour mini-reshuffle
Rowena Mason, The Guardian, 20 October 2014
Labour sets out plan to reach 200,000 homes-a-year target
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 14 October 2014
Where will we be in May 2015?
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 13 October 2014
Miliband seeks to calm Labour fears over Ukip and migration
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 12 October 2014
Straight down the middle: It’s easy to forget the British electoral sweet spot is in the centre-grounds
Jane Merrick, Independent on Sunday, 12 October 2014
No seat is safe, Labour chiefs are warned
Sam Coates, The Times, 11 October 2014
Ed Miliband urged to harden stance on immigration after slim by-election win
Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 10 October 2014
Finds to the right, fins to the left
Stephen Bush, Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2014
Labour’s education focus is social mobility
Dan Holden, Shifting Grounds, 23 September 2014
Labour considers staking all on saving the NHS
The Guardian, 17 September 2014
Labour needs a distinctive and radical offer for England
Left Foot Forward, 19 September, 2014
Labour urged to tax ‘mansions’ in the north worth £400k
The Express, 10 August 2014
Tesco and Tony Blair: two eras brought low by hubris
John Harris, The Guardian, 25 July 2014
Tony Blair was right about some things, however uncomfortable that makes you feel
James Bloodworth, Left Foot Forward, 22 July 2014
For all his electoral success, Blair’s blind spots on public opinion continue to hobble Labour
Daniel Bentley, Civitas, 22 July 2014
Labour’s spring is back – but it won’t mean a thing without a swing
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 22 July 2014
Blair on Miliband: disagreement, but also consensus
George Eaton, New Statesman, 21 July 2014
Denying Tony Blair’s successes is like denying the moon landings: they obviously happens
Stephen Bush, The Telegraph, 21 July 2014
The Tony Blair legacy is electoral domination, not policy
Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, 21 July 2014
That parts of the Labour party still love Blair so much ought to worry the ‘new’ leadership
Steve Richards, The Independent, 21 July 2014
Blair backs Miliband agenda in leadership anniversary lecture
LabourList, 21 July 2014
Independence: Tony Blair thinks Scots will vote no
The Scotsman, 21 July 2014
Labour ‘should be the radicals’
Daily Mail, 21 July 2014
Tony Blair urges Labour to remain party of the centre ground
Financial Times, 21 July 2014
Blair’s warning to Miliband: please the voters, not your ideological ghosts
Daily Telegraph, 21 July 2014
Tony Blair: Labour must avoid ‘delusionary thinking’ to win in 2015
The Guardian, 21 July 2014
Election 2015: Tony Blair tells Ed Miliband not to veer left
The Independent, 21 July 2014
I’ve not changed, says Tony Blair
BBC News, 21 July 2014
Two decades on, what is Tony Blair’s legacy worth
John Rentoul, The Independent, 20 July 2014
Shift to the centre or you’ll lose, Blair tells Miliband
The Sunday Times, 20 July 2014
The outcome of the election will be decided by a tug of war to claim disaffected Lib Dem voters
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 18 July 2014
Mandelson is 20 years out of date
Jeremy Corbyn MP, The Morning Star, 9 July 2014
Labour’s EU immigration policy is a ‘big hurdle’ to election victory, admits Andy Burnham
The Express, 3 July 2014
Burnham: Labour needs position on Europe and migrants
The Sun, 3 July 2014
Labour cautious about freezing child benefit for over-fives
The Guardian, 27 June 2014
Diane Abbott breaks Labour ranks to warn against mansion tax in London
London Evening Standard, 26 June 2014
The rats have crawled out of the sewer
Michael Meacher MP, Morning Star, 23 June 2014
This isn’t an era of four-party politics: it’s an era of Tory and Labour uselessness
Stephen Bush, Daily Telegraph, 2 June 2014
A show of unity: Only hope or aspiration at Progress conference
Conor Pope, LabourList, 2 June 2014
Progress annual conference 2014: Labour slowly faces up to reality
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 2 June 2014
Chuka Umunna Accuses Ukip’s Nigel Farage Of ‘Maliciously’ Distorting Immigration Debate
Huffington Post, 31 May 2014
Umunna accuses Farage of distortion
Belfast Telegraph, 31 May 2014
Labour must take tougher line on ‘mass migration’ from Europe, Miliband told
Daniel Boffey, The Observer, 31 May 2014
Blair aide warns Labour over public service strategy
Ross Hawkins, BBC News, 31 May 2014
Labour Will Learn From Much-Mocked ‘Shrinking Clegg’ Election Broadcast, Says Chuka Umunna
Ned Simons, Huffington Post, 31 May 2014
Labour lacks leadership and trust on economy, says Blairite group
James Kirkup and Steven Swinford, Daily Telegraph, 30 May 2014
Brown was right about ‘bigoted’ woman, says MP
Michael Savage, The Times, 30 May 2014
Hain warns on historic prosecutions
Belfast Telegraph, 30 May 2014
The dangers of safety first
Robert Philpot, LabourList, 29 May 2014
How Labour can win a mandate for change
Patrick Diamond, Left Foot Forward, 29 May 2014
Get your act together, Mandelson tells Miliband: Former business secretary says Labour leader needs to abandon ‘crowd-pleasing’ to counter rise of Ukip
James Chapman, Daily Mail, 28 May 2014
The Labour party’s funk: Running out of road
The Economist, 24 May 2014
Popular policies are not enough – Miliband must win voters’ respect
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 23 May 2014
How can Labour win over aspirational voters?
Left Foot Forward, 16 May 2014
Ken Livingstone – he just can’t help himself
Robert Philpot, Jewish Chronicle, 16 May 2014
Ed Miliband must give up his love of state intervention
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, 14 May 2014
Exclusive: ‘New Labour’ consigned to the dustbin of history as Progress drops the label
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 8 May 2014
Labour warned to tread carefully on price freeze pledges
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 5 May 2015
Voters are uneasy about extremists in Ukip, says Iain Duncan Smith: Pension Secretary says stories about party members’ views will undermine its credibility
James Chapman and Gerri Peev, Daily Mail, 29 April 2014
Labour faces uphill battle to win key seat
Sam Coates, The Times, 28 April 2014
Labour risks being a ‘one trick pony’
Marie Woolf, Sunday Times, 20 April 2014
Miliband may take back the railways
Sam Coates, The Times, 4 April 2014
Labour’s right is rumbling. Not before time
Atul Hatwal, Labour Uncut, 27 March 2014
The left has united behind Ed Miliband. Now he has to be bold
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 25 March 2014
Tories close in on Labour’s lead in polls
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 24 March 2014
Labour must adopt new principles
Letters, The Guardian, 24 March 2014
Ed Miliband told: Don’t play safe with Labour manifesto
Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason, The Guardian, 24 March 2014
If Labour wants to get elected, its thinktanks should think again
Simon Jenkins, 24 March 2014
Labour’s new divide: Centralisers versus decentralisers
Blighty, The Economist, 24 March 2014
Miliband needs to renew his commitment to ‘people power’
Rafael Behr, New Statesman, 24 March 2014
Sloppy Labour messaging is not going to work as the election draws near
Richard Carr, Left Foot Forward, 24 March 2014
How does Labour get its economic message across?
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 17 March 2014
The boy Miliband done good
Rob Marchant, Labour Uncut, 5 March 2014
Young Labour descends into early 80s style infighting
Renie Anjeh, Labour Uncut, 27 February 2014
Labour Students: Why OMOV may not be as scary as you think
Dom Anderson and Dannie Grufferty, LabourList, 25 February 2014
Where next for 2015′s losers?
Sean Kippin, Total Politics, 25 February 2014
For all their protests, Red Ed and his party are turning yellow
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 20 February 2014
Clegg’s middle-ground tactics spark Lib Dem infighting
Jill Sherman, The Times, 19 February 2014
Labour won’t forget Lib Dems’ broken promises, says Ed Balls
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 18 February 2014
Ed Balls: ‘We don’t want coalition with Lib Dems’
The Scotsman, 18 February 2014
Labour does not want a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, says Ed Balls
Christopher Hope, Daily Telegraph, 18 February 2014
How Labour suffers from ‘let’s ignore everyone except the Tories’ syndrome
Luke Akehurst, LabourList, 18 February 2014
Follow the logic, Ed, and hug a banker
Melissa Kite, The Guardian, 17 February 2014
Labour candidates tell Miliband to ‘hug a banker’
Jack Grimston, Sunday Times, 16 February 2014
Death to ‘Public Service Reform’! Long live public service reform
Hopi Sen, 11 February 2014
375 businesses in Crawley folded in just two years
Crawley News, 8 February 2014
Shadow deputy prime minister Harriet Harman heads up Watford Labour conference at West Herts College
Mike Wright, Watford Observer, 30 January 2014
Alan Johnson calls for radical reform of Labour-union link
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 28 January 2014
Dave and Ed need their lipstick and high heels
Rachel Sylvester, The Times, 28 January 2014
Spend too much? In some areas Labour didn’t spend enough, says Ed Balls
Matthew Holehouse, Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2014
Ed Miliband should not believe voters are moving left, says Labour strategist
Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 24 January 2014
Harriet Harman urges Labour to stop discussing possible deal with Lib Dems
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 24 January 2014
Westmorland and Lonsdale needs Labour as much as anywhere else
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 23 January 2014
Engaging communities outside Britain’s cities
Maria Eagle MP, LabourList, 22 January 2014
Double Trouble: 1974 election year
Robert Philpot, Total Politics, 21 January 2014
Young Labour’s Progress
Conrad Landin, LRB Blog, 9 January 2014
PoliticsLive
Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 7 January 2014
Labour party takes stock: should Ed Miliband be bold or cautious?
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 20 December 2013
Sadiq Khan hits out at London Labour ‘beauty parade’
George Eaton, New Statesman, 11 December 2013
Labour needs more than empathy and catchy pledges to win power
Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph, 3 December 2013
The questions facing George Osborne in the autumn statement
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 2 December 2013
Powerful swing voters say Labour lacks vision – and that the Tories are still nasty
Jane Merrick, Independent on Sunday, 1 December 2013
Diane Abbott calls on Labour to make case for immigration reform
Rowena Mason, The Guardian, 21 August 2013
‘Miliband should quit to save Labour’: Blairite ex-energy minister says party can’t afford to follow him ‘lemming like’ to defeat
Jason Groves, Daily Mail, 21 August 2013
Diane Abbott attacks Miliband’s ‘failure’ to challenge Tories on immigration
Michael Savage, The Times, 21 August 2013
One rule for the left, another for the right: in Labour, some disloyalties are more disloyal than others
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 19 August 2013
5 ways Ed Miliband can get back on the front foot – An open letter
Mark Ferguson, LabourList, 12 August 2013
Where is Labour going wrong?
John Harris, The Guardian, 11 August 2013
A primary solution to widening Labour party democracy
The Guardian, 12 July 2013
Labour’s early Christmas gift for the Tories
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 10 July 2013
Ed Miliband’s plan to reform Labour’s link with the unions – panel verdict
The Guardian, 9 July 2013
Falkirk crisis: Labour needs the unions, but both need members
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 8 July 2013
‘Blairites manipulating Labour selection process’ – Len McCluskey hits back
Rajeev Syal, The Guardian, 8 July 2013
Who’s got Ed Miliband’s back?
The Economist, 8 July 2013
Labour targets Aldi mum and Crawley man as key to election victory in 2015
Vincent Moss, The Mirror, 7 July 2013
Miliband feels pressure as Unite battle becomes one he cannot afford to lose
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 4 July 2013
David Blunkett: union influence row poses big risk to Labour
Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 2 July 2013
The Labour party selection process is no model for progressive politics
John Harris, The Guardian, 2 July 2013
Does Len McCluskey or Ed Miliband run Labour?
Rachel Sylvester, The Times, 2 July 2013
Labour candidate selection and union action in Falkirk
Sunday Politics, BBC, 30 June 2013
Rift within Labour deepens over union role in selecting MP
Laura Pitel, The Times, 29 June 2013
Unite threatens Labour with legal action over Falkirk row
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 27 June 2013
Revisiting old New haunts
Dan Hodges, Total Politics, 26 June 2013
Lesson of 1983: not madness but marginalia
John Rentoul, The Independent, 11 June 2013
1983 election: Alliance and skirmish
Robert Philpot, Total Politics, 4 June 2013
The left is reaching out – but the right is looking inwards
Tom Mauchline, LabourList, 2 June 2013
We don’t have to wait for international action to tackle tax avoidance
Robert Philpot, Huffington Post, 31 May 2013
Progress launch tackle tax avoidance charter
LabourList, 30 May 2013
Labour must look forward, not back, to win in 2015
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 28 May 2013
Region is a key battleground for Labour in the next election
Annabelle Dickson, Eastern Daily Press, 28 May 2013
Peter Mandelson’s selection argument is about politics not procedure
Len McCluskey, The Guardian, 21 May 2013
Revealed: how Ed Miliband planned to hang, draw and quarter Blair and Brown
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 19 May 2013
New Labour? No, it’s more new Seekers as ‘tin-eared Ed begs, steals and borrows’
Glen Owen, Daily Mail, 13 May 2013
Will Ed Miliband be the Doctor Who of politics?
Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2013
Immigrants? We sent out search parties to get them to come… and made it hard for Britons to get work, says Mandelson
Tim Shipman, Daily Mail, 14 May 2013
Miliband’s Progress speech was virtually ignored. That’s a worry.
Ben Mitchell, 14 May 2013
Ed Miliband must get ‘match fit’, says New Labour group
Brian Wheeler, BBC News, 13 May 2013
Labour can win in 2015, and shift the battleground of British politics
Andrew Harrop, The Guardian, 13 May 2013
Ed Miliband has just given the worst speech I’ve ever heard from a party leader. He’s running out of time
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 13 May 2013
Still Waiting: A day at the Progress Annual Conference
Andy Russell, Russell Writing, 12 May 2013
Unite union accused of manipulating Labour selection procedure
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 12 May 2013
Mandelson: Unions must be tamed
Kevin Dowling and Jack Grimston, Sunday Times, 12 May 2013
Abstain in EU vote, Tory ministers advised
BBC News, 12 May 2013
David Cameron acts to stem Tory rebellion over EU referendum
Daniel Boffey, The Observer, 12 May 2013
Tory civil war erupts over Europe vote
Marie Woolf, Isabel Oakeshott, and Jack Grimston, Sunday Times, 12 May 2013
SNP MPs to block move for early EU vote
Tom Peterkin, The Scotsman, 12 May 2013
Cameron running scared on EU, says Miliband
Rajeev Syal, The Guardian, 11 May 2013
Ed Miliband: commitment to 2015 EU referendum is ‘wrong’
Tim Ross, Daily Telegraph, 11 May 2013
Miliband claims PM is in a panic over Tory Europe rebellion
Michael Settle, The Herald, 11 May 2013
Miliband rules out EU referendum promise
Darren McCaffrey, Sky News, 11 May 2013
Ed Miliband to rule out promise of a referendum on Europe
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 11 May 2013
Ed Miliband branded ‘weak’ after he attacks Cameron for giving in on EU referendum
Owen Bennett, Daily Express, 11 May 2013
Ed Miliband On Europe Referendum: Labour Accuses David Cameron Of Being ‘Weak’
The Huffington Post, 11 May 2013
Miliband attacks David Cameron over EU referendum stance
Ross Hawkins, BBC News, 11 May 2013
Mandelson attacks Ed Miliband’s ‘One Nation’ vision
BBC News, 11 May 2013
How Ed Miliband can move Labour forward to a majority
Robert Philpot, Guardian Comment Network, 10 May 2013
Labour ‘must prepare for coalition talks’ with Lib Dems, says Adonis
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 10 May 2013
Is nice but dim such a bad thing for Labour?
Jonathan Jones, The Spectator, 10 May 2013
Nice but dim: Voters’ damning verdict of Ed Miliband who they do not think will take the unpopular decisions that Britain needs
Matt Chorley, Daily Mail, 10 May 2013
Why should Labour listen to the people? It’s perfectly happy talking to itself
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2013
Ed Balls needs to work harder, says Labour party grandee Peter Hain
Joe Murphy, London Evening Standard, 8 May 2013
Peter Hain says Labour must perform better
BBC News, 7 May 2013
Labour must make case for borrowing out of recession, says Peter Hain
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 7 May 2013
Peter Hain wants more debt — another policy stolen from the Tories
Fraser Nelson, The Spectator, 7 May 2013
Progress to launch ‘Campaign for a Labour Majority’
Mark Ferguson, LabourList, 26 April 2013
Comrades! Let’s head for our country home to plot rebellion
Isabel Oakeshott and Jack Grimston, The Sunday Times, 21 April 2103
Miliband urged to hold inquiry into ‘selection stitch-up by the unions’
Michael Savage, The Times, 20 April 2013
Ed Miliband warned to build support now or risk floundering
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 18 April 2013
Blair and Thatcher: What’s the difference?
Robert Philpot, 16 April 2013
Miliband and the Blairites have more in common than they suggest
Rafael Behr, New Statesman, 15 April 2013
Labour’s ‘angry brigade’ shouldn’t dismiss Tony Blair
Robert Philpot, Huffington Post, 12 April 2013
Labour’s ‘angry brigade’ has misunderstood Blair’s message
Robert Philpot, LabourList, 11 April 2013
Labour’s relationship with Thatcherism
Tom Miller, Left of the Line, 9 April 2013
Labour MPs tell Ed Miliband to toughen up on welfare
Joe Murphy, London Evening Standard, 8 April 2013
Will Miliband face either Cameron or Clegg at the election?
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 11 March 2013
On Progress and the parliamentary candidate selection process
Though Cowards Flinch, 10 March 2013
Our party is a cause or it is nothing at all
Len McCluskey, LabourList, 6 March 2013
Eastleigh by-election: poor Labour performance fuels doubts about Miliband’s ability to win seats
James Kirkup, Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2013
Blairite think tank cautious in assessment of Welsh Government progress
Martin Shipton, 28 February 2013, Western Mail
Seizing the progressive moment: 1906, 1945, 2015?
Richard Toye, Juncture, 18 February 2013
The Blairite zombies need to face up to New Labour’s failures
Len McCluskey, New Statesman, 14 February 2013
Needed: a new language for tax and spend
Steve Hilditch, Red Brick, 5 February 2013
Johnson’s self-delusion
Morning Star, 4 February 2013
Alan Johnson presses Ed Miliband for policies and warns of union decline
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 3 February 2013
The Labour party and success in 2015!
Portsmouth Labour party, 25 January 2013
Who will speak up for the universal welfare state now?
John Harris, The Guardian, 21 January 2013
Everybody loves Borgen?
Steven Fielding, Ballots and Bullets, 12 January 2013
A moment of truth for Ed Miliband’s Labour party
John Harris, The Guardian, 12 December 2012
Labour’s U-turn on equal marriage: why is equality for minority groups a matter of conscience?
Owen Jones, The Independent, 11 December 2012
Politics mustn’t be just for the rich
Daniel Carden, Morning Star, 18 November 2012
Labour ponders lessons of Barack Obama victory
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 7 November 2012
Time to Talk About Immigration
Joe Hayman, Huffington Post, 7 November 2012
How I learned to stop being bitter and love the thinktanks
Hopi Sen, Comment is Free, 7 November 2012
Class and Political Values
A Very Public Sociologist, 6 November 2012
This Halloween beware of Labour’s zombie voters
Andy Harrop, LabourList, 31 October 2012
Neither Keynes nor the market will save Labour
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian, 29 October 2012
How governments recover from midterm blues
Robert Philpot, TotalPolitics, 26 October 2012
Middle-class voters ‘more leftwing’ than the working-class
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 26 October 2012
Progress launches ‘Purple Papers’ urging Labour to spell out tough choices before the election
Mark Ferguson, LabourList, 25 October 2012
Labour told to spell out tough choices by pressure group
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 24 October 2012
Who benefits from a Lib Dem collapse?
Rob Ford, Ballot and Bullets, 15 October 2012
Why ‘incumbency advantage’ may decide the next election
Don Paskini, Liberal Conspiracy, 8 October 2012
Top 100 most influential figures from the left 2012: analysis
Iain Dale and Brian Brivati, Daily Telegraph, 4 October 2012
Ed Miliband ‘must woo Tories in south to win the election’
Joe Murphy, London Evening Standard, 2 October 2012
What Ed Miliband didn’t tell you about One Nation Labour
Joe Jervis, LabourList, 3 October 2012
Ed Miliband must move further and faster from New Labour
Seamus Milne, The Guardian, 2 October 2012
Stay vague, Ed — too red and you’re dead
Martin Ivens, Sunday Times, 30 September 2012
Union boss: we’ll seize back Labour
Mark Hookham, Sunday Times, 30 September 2012
Challenge ahead: The Ed issue
Brian Brady and Jane Merrick, Independent on Sunday, 30 September 2012
Ten minutes with … Jessica Asato
Ben Duckworth, Total Politics, 28 September 2012
Respect: the case against allowing extremists into the Labour party
Rob Marchant, Labour Uncut, 19 September 2012
Salma Yaqoob once described the 7/7 murders as ‘reprisal attacks’. She doesn’t belong in the Labour party
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 12 September 2012
Nomination for most influential leftwing thinker 2011/12: Philip Gould
Robert Philpot, Left Foot Forward, 31 August 2012
FirstGroup warns against rail franchise delay in Branson row
Dan Milmo and Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 28 August 2012
Virgin on a disaster: Ministers urged to delay £5.5bn West Coast Main Line deal for a review
Daily Mirror, 28 August 2012
Unions back thinktank to remind Labour of roots in working lives
Hélène Mulholland, The Guardian, 17 August 2012
Stephen Twigg interview: Yes, Labour did waste money on school buildings
Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 19 July 2012
Celebrating patriotism : How Labour can learn from Danny Boyle
Joe Jervis, LabourList, 1 August 2012
Progress are here to stay, get over it
Curtis McLellan, Labour Uncut, 16 July 2012
‘Labour is preparing for power. And we believe in the Project’
Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson, The Times, 14 July 2012
Blair and the New Labour will
Sam Wheeler, Shifting Grounds, 12 July 2012
Cool, assured Ed Miliband must now boldly define himself
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 12 July 2012
Halting Progress
Danny Rye, Birkbeck, University of London, 12 July 2012
The military schools backlash is the latest offensive in the Labour left’s war on the Blairites
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 11 July 2012
David Miliband: Politics is broken. We must seize the chance to remake it
David Miliband, New Statesman, 11 July 2012
Labour approaches a tipping point
Rob Marchant, Labour Uncut, 11 July 2012
Why does ASLEF want to shut down Tribune and Compass?
Hope Sen, 10 July 2012
In Frances O’Grady, the TUC brothers have a sister to reckon with
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 10 July 2012
The hard left is on the march and in no mood to stop
Atul Hatwal, Labour Uncut, 6 July 2012
Labour pressure group Progress announces shakeup after union attacks
Hélène Mulholland, The Guardian, 3 July 2012
Progress gets a Clause 4 moment
Mark Ferguson, LabourList, 3 July 2012
Alastair Campbell, Book Launch, ‘The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq – The Alastair Campbell Diaries’
Mile End Group, 2 July 2012
Revealed: the GMB backtracks on Progress
Atul Hatwal, Labour Uncut, 29 June 2012
Beware the Incitatus
Sadie Smith, Total Politics, 25 June 2012
Unite leader urges radical Labour alternative to coalition
Dan Milmo, The Guardian, 25 June 2012 2012
Paranoia and Progress
Rob Marchant, The Centre Left,24 June 2012
Labour and the trade unions
Peter Watt, Dale & Co, 24 June 2012
Progress: a party within a party
Morning Star, 22 June 2012
Unite union leader refuses to back calls to exile New Labour thinktank
Dan Milmo, Hélène Mulholland, Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 22 June 2012
Revealed: The document that explains how Unite intends to take over the Labour party
Atul Hatwal, Labour Uncut, 21 June 2012
The union takeover is tearing the Labour Party into pieces
Dan Hodges, The Daily Telegraph, 21 June 2012
Rightwing thinktanks much less transparent than leftwing organisations
Shamik Das, Left Foot Forward, 21 June 2012
It’s time for Progress to be brought into the sunlight and examined for what it is
Simon Weller, LabourList, 21 June 2012
In defence of Progress
John Healey MP, LabourList, 21 June 2012
Are Cameron and Miliband Going Back to the 1980s?
Tom Wadsworth, Huffington Post, 21 June 2012
No time for foolishness
Rob Marchant, LabourList, 20 June 2012
Unison attacks ‘intolerable’ Labour thinktank
Dan Milmo, The Guardian, 20 June 2012
How Labour can make progress
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 19 June 2012
Labour can’t afford to turn in on itself
David Clark, Shifting Grounds, 19 June 2012
To ban Progress is an attempt to ban New Labour
Phil Wilson MP, LabourList, 19 June 2012
The GMB’s attack on Progress is an attack on pluralism
Neal Lawson, New Statesman, 19 June 2012
Owen Jones, the Justin Bieber of the left
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 19 June 2012
Why are the unions frightened?
Nick Cohen, The Spectator, 18 June 2012
Mandelson hits out at unions for leading Labour down a blind alley
Anushka Asthana, The Times, 18 June 2012
Union chief vows to step up fight over public sector pay
Dan Milmo, The Guardian, 18 June 2012
Don’t go back to the hate-ies
Kevin Schofield, The Sun, 18 June 2012
Lord Mandelson accuses unions of leading Labour down a ‘blind alley’ that could trigger divisions seen in the 1980s
Daily Mail, 18 June 2012
Lord Mandelson warns against union move to ban Progress from Labour
Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 17 June 2012
Mandelson tells Marr unions need 21st century rethink
LabourList, 17 June 2012
Miliband unveils plans for anti-austerity alliance in Europe
Jane Merrick, Independent on Sunday, 17 June 2012
Left-leaning unions leading Labour up ‘blind alley’, says Lord Mandelson
Christopher Hope, Daily Telegraph, 17 June 2012
The last thing Labour needs now is a settling of scores
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian, 17 June 2012
Unions take on Blairites in fight for Labour’s heart
Anushka Asthana, The Times, 16 June 2012
Progress and the battle for the Labour party
Peter Watt, Dale & Co, 16 June 2012
Another voice: It is time for new trade unions
Denis MacShane MP, The Spectator, 16 June 2012
Unions fight Labour’s Blairite faction ‘in struggle for party’s soul’
Patrick Wintour, 15 June 2012
Hand off Progress
Jamie Reed MP, Labour Uncut, 15 June 2012
New Labour group Progress rejects GMB union ‘outlaw’ threat
Kayte Rath, BBC News, 15 June 2012
Time to fight for the Labour party
Atual Hatwal, Labour Uncut, 15 June 2012
The real beef unions have isn’t with Progress but Ed Balls
Sunny Hundal, Liberal Conspiracy, 15 June 2012
Labour’s left sets off on another purge of the Blairites
Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph, 15 June 2012
A growing head of steam
Paul Richards, LabourList, 14 June 2012
Progress and an interesting idea
Hopi Sen, Hopi Sen – a blog from the backroom, 14 June 2012
Challenge Labour and you’ll find a horse’s head on your pillow
Dan Hodges, New Statesman, 13 June 2012
Outlawing Progress
Philip Collins, The Times, 13 June 2012
The campaign against Progress spells pure danger for Labour
Rafael Behr, New Statesman, 13 June 2012
Progress and the GMB should be looking for ways to work together
Luke Akehurst, LabourList, 12 June 2012
Ian Blair’s warning to Theresa May
Amber Elliott, TotalPolitics, 11 June 2012
Four ways Labour can step up a gear
Richard Angell and Alex White, Labour Uncut, 1 June 2012
The fightback fundraiser kitemark can help free CLPs from central command and control
Peter Watt, 31 May 2012
The three-way tribal war in the Labour party
Emma Burnell, Total Politics, 29 May 2012
Labour ‘must attract former Tory voters in southern England to win election’
Patrick Wintour, 25 May 2012
This voter registration drive. Why, exactly?
Rob Marchant, LabourList, 22 May 2012
City Spy: Americans aren’t Havana laugh at our jokes
City Spy, London Evening Standard, 18 May 2012
Ed’s making progress… but is it fast enough?
David Button, Connect Communications, 16 May 2012
Labour modernisers seek the ‘new centre-ground’
Brian Wheeler, BBC News, 14 May 2012
Ed’s got talent, but he has to win over the toughest crowd of all
Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2012
The Sunday review on Monday: Ed Miliband’s speech and Phil Collins’ hook at the Progress conference
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 14 May 2012
How can Labour harness the voter rage against the machine?
Andrew Rawnsley, The Observer, 13 May 2012
Ed Miliband hopes for poll victory as disillusioned Lib Dems flock to Labour
Toby Helm, The Observer, 13 May 2012
Peter Hain to quit shadow cabinet as Ed Miliband plans Labour reshuffle
Patrick Hennessy, Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2012
Ed Miliband in voter registration drive
Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2012
What are they putting in Ed’s tea?
Jane Merrick, Independent on Sunday, 13 May 2012
Miliband: We lost the plot in power
David Wooding, The Sun, 13 May 2012
Ed Miliband urges Jeremy Hunt to resign
BBC News, 12 May 2012Miliband Renews Call For Hunt To Quit
Peter Spencer, 12 May 2012, Sky news
Labour warned against burning bridges with Liberal Democrats
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 11 May 2012
Liam Byrne is right about Labour’s pains
Neil O’Brien, Daily Telegraph, 11 May 2012
Northern Lights Public Policy and the Geography of Political Attitudes
Neil O’Brien and Anthony Wells, Policy Exchange, April 2012
The Queen’s Speech – Time for an Alternative
Robert Philpot, The Huffington Post, 2 April 2012
A shadow Queen’s speech
Max Burman, TotalPolitics, 2 April 2012Will primaries address the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’?
Jon Worth, Left Foot Forward, 29 March 2012
Jacqui Smith ‘happy’ to see civil partnerships make way for equal marriage
Stephen Gray, Pink News, 21 March 2012
Jacqui Smith happy for her legislation to be repealed to allow same-sex marriage
Nigel Morris, The Independent, 20 March 2012
Climate law survives red tape cull
Rowena Mason, Daily Telegraph, 20 March 2012
Budget preview: Osborne plays politics with Britain’s economy
Jonathan Todd, Labour Uncut, 20 March 2012
Israel – a progressive cause
Robert Philpot, The Jewish Chronicle, 11 March 2011
After the Third Way: Progressive Alternatives to European Austerity
Matt Browne, GPCNews, 23 February 2012
Blair returns with plea for Labour to be pro-business
Joe Murphy, London Evening Standard, 13 February 2012
Breakfast at Tony’s
Mark D’Arcy, BBC News, 13 February 2012
Tony Blair: Labour must win back business supporters
Tim Ross, Daily Telegraph, 13 February 2012
Blair’s back, and that may not be good news for Ed Miliband
Tim Shipman, Daily Mail, 13 February 2012
Blair advises MPs to focus on centre-ground
George Parker, Financial Times, 12 February 2012In Defence of Social Democracy
Kevin Hickson, Next Left, 3 February 2012
Still searching for a way to hurt Cameron
David Talbot, Labour Uncut, 30 January 2012
Would Labour have won in 2010 if Blair had still been leader?
John Rentoul, The Independent, 26 January 2012
Smart people learn from their enemies
Rob Marchant, Labour Uncut, 23 January 2012
Miliband and Balls have fallen into a Tory trap
Mehdi Hasan, New Statesman, 19 January 2012
Any willing provider? Labour’s anti-state chic
Steve Akehurst, Next Left, 18 January 2012
Everyone agrees mutualism helps, but where’s the action?
Chris Nicholson, Left Foot Forward, 17 January 2012
Victorious Miliband must avoid complacency
Robert Philpot, Financial Times, 14 January 2011
Chuff chuff
John Rentoul, The Independent, 11 January July 2012
Responsible capitalism is Labour’s agenda
Stewart Wood, The Guardian, 9 January 2012
Labour – roll up your sleeves and demolish these disastrous howlers
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 6 January 2012
Labour accepts £5bn of defence cuts as Jim Murphy rejects ‘populism’
Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 5 January 2012
Tories and UUP split over merger deal
Ed Jacobs, Left Foot Forward, 5 January 2012
Would diversity spike pop Westminster bubble?
David Ritter, Huffington Post, 5 January 2012
Booking a date with destiny
Troy Bramston, The Australian, 2 January 2012
Foreword
Robert Philpot, PPP Journal, December 2011
What do you want to ask Nigel Farage?
Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 14 December 2011
David Cameron’s long night in Brussels may rearrange British politics
Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 10 December 2011
From The Purple Book to Lord Glasman’s Blue: The Changing Colours Of The Labour Party
Charlie Lindlar, Huffington Post, 2 December 2011
‘I’m going to do this may way’
Robert Philpot and Richard Angell, Labor Voice, 30 November 2011
Reconciling Globalisation and Social Democracy: The Strange Case of the Purple Book
David Ritter, Global Policy, 28 November 2011
The future of the left
Len McCluskey, Morning Star, 27 November 2011
David Miliband calls for Labour to be robust on Europe
Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 6 November 2011
Review of the Purple Book by @ProgressOnline
Gareth Alterna, Musings, 4 November 2011
Tangled Up In Blue: A straightforward profile of a confusing man
Carl Packman, Left Foot Forward, 29 October 2011
Book Review: The Purple Book: A Progressive Future for Labour
Carl Packman, LSE Politics Blog, 23 October 2011
Purple Book event
RachelReeves.net, 22 October 2011
The Freudian reading of New Labour
Carl Packman, Though Cowards Flinch, 16 October 2011
The Purple Book: Bland and tragic
Carl Packman, Left Foot Forward, 15 October 2011
The Colour Purple
Natan Doran, Next Left, 12 October 2011
French primaries point the way for democracy
Will Straw, Left Foot Forward, 11 October 2011
North East MP Jenny Chapman handed shadow prison role
Richard Moss, BBC News, 10 October 2011
Alison Seabeck ‘sorry’ to be leaving housing brief
Ross Macmillan, 24dash, 10 October 2011
Ten things the Blairites don’t get
Andrew Murray, 21st Century Manifesto, 10 October 2011
Banishment order
Alex Wellman, Inside Housing, 7 October 2011
Will Stephen Twigg soften Labour’s line on education reform?
Toby Young, Daily Telegraph, 7 October 2011
Labour conference: ‘I feel like I’m going to the circus’
Stephen Moss, Guardian, 28 September 2011
Victims’ rights: better but not good enough
Sally Gimson, Labour Uncut, 27 September 2011
Red, purple or blue? Which kind of Labour are you?
Oliver Wright, The Independent, 27 September 2011
Voters’ verdict: the two Eds aren’t on the money
Rachel Sylvester, The Times, 27 September 2011
The Purple Book – Labour’s next manifesto?
Simon Redfern, PR Week, 26 September 2011
All too human: is this the enquiring mind of a future prime minister?
The Independent, 26 September 2011
Purple Bookers must keep up fight against Red Ed
Harry Phibbs, Daily Mail, 26 September 2011
LBC Book Club – Richard Angell, Rowenna Davis and Owen Jones
LBC, 26 September 2011
Review of Cutting Crime and Building Confidence: Empowering Victims and Communities
Steve McCabe MP, Left Foot Forward, 25 September 2011
We were addicted to Murdoch like crack cocaine, admits Jowell
Jane Merrick, Brian Brady, and Matt Chorley, Independent on Sunday, 25 September 2011
Exploiting a conservative moment
David Blackburn, The Spectator, 25 September 2011
Power and the People’s party
Herald Scotland, 25 Spetember 2011
You can call Ed Miliband many things, but certainly not cautious
Andrew Rawnsley, The Observer, 25 September 2011
Ed Miliband has to show voters he has more to offer than old tunes
Matthew D’Ancona, Daily Telegraph, 24 September 2011
They can sing a rainbow, but the words are off key
Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman, 24 September 2011
Labour: Lord Glasman and Jacqui Smith on Purple Book
Daily Politics, BBC One, 23 September 2011
Lord Glasman, the Blue Labour thinker who crosses party’s red lines
Rowenna Davis, The Guardian, 23 September 2011
Landale online: Time for Ed Miliband to reach out
James Landale, BBC, 23 September 2011
Is it Red Ed, Blue Ed, Purple Ed or just Brown? (£)
Philip Collins, The Times, 23 September 2011
Labour’s ‘Purple Book’ is long on whingeing and short on ideas
Cristina Odone, Daily Telegraph, 23 September 2011
Book review: The Purple Book
Don Paskini, Liberal Conspiracy, 23 September 2011
I’m boldly going my own way, says Ed Miliband
Craig Woodhouse, Evening Standard, 22 September 2011
To renew, Labour must understand the trends shaping modern Britain
Will Straw, Left Foot Forward, 22 September 2011
Tessa Jowell calls for ‘community-led commissioning’
John Plummer, Third Sector Online, 22 September 2011
Sunday Review on Tuesday: The Purple Book
Dave Talbot, Labour Uncut, 20 September 2011
You pay the tax, you set the rate
Robert Philpot, Sunday Times, 18 September 2011
Fighting for a fair deal on pensions
Geoff Ho, Sunday Express, 18 September 2011
Purple Book shows Labour split on home ownership
ConservativeHome, 18 September 2011
Ed Miliband accused of ‘failing the conservatory test’ and being out of touch with supporters’ aspirations
Simon Walters, Daily Mail, 18 September 2011
Labour’s Purple path to power
Tessa Jowell MP and Maurice Glasman on the Today Programme, 16 September 2011
The sweet-spot party would win every time
Philip Collins, The Times (£), 16 September 2011
Political books: party colours
Editorial, The Guardian, 16 September 2011
Lib Dems’ illusions are gone. Now they need imagination
Martin Kettle, The Guardan, 16 September 2011
We must rethink what the state is there to do
Tessa Jowell, LabourList, 16 September 2011
UK politics: Recovery postponed
George Parker and Elizabeth Rigby, The FT, 16 September 2011
Why Ed should, and will, welcome The Purple Book
Caroline Crampton, TotalPolitics, 15 September 2011
The Purple Book and the future of New Labour
Robert Philpot, The New Statesman, 15 September 2011
Housing asbo proposed for troublesome families
Alex Wellman, Inside Housing, 15 September 2011
Labour must rebuild confidence in an empowerment state
Patrick Diamond, ProgLoc, 15 September 2011
Purple Book Released – What People Are Saying
Chris Wimpress, The Huffington Post UK, 15 September 2011
Purple prose and Labour’s double dilemma
Paul Richards, LabourList, 15 September 2011
The Purple Book – new ideas for a new way of governing
Richard Angell, Left Foot Forward, 15 September 2011
Sunday Review on Thursday: The Purple Book
Anthony Painter, LabourUncut, 15 September 2011
Labour party maps out a purple path to power
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 15 September 2011
Pass notes, No 3,044: The Purple Book
G2, The Guardian, 15 September2011
Labour anger over Purple Book
Daniel Boffey, The Guardian, 10 September 2011
Let charities tackle terrorists and citizens run the army
Sam Coates, The Times, 10 September 2011
Labour looks like a party of urban elite, Ivan Lewis warns in his essay
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 9 September 2011
Leaders like Gordon Brown aren’t destroyed by hissy fits, but by a lack of courage
Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph, 5 September 2011
Which of the class of 2010 are making an impact?
Neil O’Brien, ConservativeHome, 8 August 2011
Blair criticises Gordon Brown
UPI.com, 9 July 2011
Labour can only regain power by fixing blight of Gordon Brown years, says Tony Blair
Holly Watt, Daily Telegaph, 9 July 2011
Brown wasted my New Labour legacy: Blair savages successor for losing centre ground
Kirsty Walker, Daily Mail, 9 July 2011
Blair: ‘I was vilified for criticising the media’
Telegraph TV, 9 July 2011
Hit GB with your rhythym stick
Clodagh Hartley, The Sun, 9 July 2011
Gordon Brown ‘lost Labour rhythm’ in No 10 says Blair
BBC News, 8 July 2011
Ten plus three
John Rentoul, The Independent, 8 July 2011
Tony Blair: New Labour died when I handed over to Gordon Brown
Polly Curtis, The Guardian, 8 July 2011
Blair calls for debate
ITV News, 8 July 2011
Blair attacks Brown’s office record
David Hughes, PA/The Indepedent, 8 July 2011
Tony Blair Condemns Phone Hacking And Praises Ed Miliband
Dina Rickman, The Huffington Post, 8 July 2011
What should the Labour party do next? We asked nine left-leaning thinkers
Toby Helm, The Observer, 12 June 2011
One in six people think Ed Miliband can be trusted with the economy
Jim Pickard, Financial Times, 12 May 2011
Shadow culture secretary withdraws Labour ‘spendthrift’ claim
Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 12 May 2011
We’re heading for defeat, Labour minister warns Miliband
Daily Mail, 12 May 2011
Miliband urged to broaden appeal
Jim Pickard, Financial Times, 11 May 2011
How Labour got it wrong – and how it can recover
John McTernan, The Scotsman, 7 May 2011
James Purnell re-enters the fray
Dan Hodges, New Statesman, 28 April 2011
Maurice Glasman: my Blue Labour vision can defeat the coalition
Maurice Glasman, The Observer, 24 April 2011
David Cameron makes a bid for the soul of white van man
Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph, 19 April 2011
Purple and orange: united colours of coalition?
Rachel Sylvester, The Times, 19 April 2011
Labour lied to public about immigration, says Ed miliband aide Lord Glasman
Rosa Prince, Daily Telegraph, 16 April 2011
‘Labour lied over migrants’
Daily Express, 16 April 2011
Miliband ally attacks Labour migration ‘lies’ over 2.2m they let in Britain
Gerri Peev, Daily Mail, 16 April 2011
Labour must change its tune to the new blues(£)
Philip Collins, The Times, 14 April 2011
‘Continuity Labour’ is the real roadblock to renewal
Seamus Milne, The Guardian, 13 April 2011
Douglas Alexander delivers jolt to Tories as he says Labour can win
Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 14 March 2011
Compass and Progress: A tale of two groupings
Luke Akehurst, LabourList, 14 March 2011
A musing about Grantham, Sheffield and the power of ideas in politics
The Dispatch Box, 14 March 2011
Post-Compass – where now for Labour’s left?
Darrell Goodliffe, LabourList, 14 March 2011
Progress: serious about winning
Hopi Sen, LabourList, 13 March 2011
Jim Murphy: avoid ‘quicksand of continual apology’ about Labour’s past
Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 12 March 2011
The New Labour illuminati?
Hopi Sen, LabourList, 12 March 2011
The Arab spring requires a defiantly European reply
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian, 7 March 2011
Labour might propose lower threshold for 50p income tax rate, says Ed Balls
Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 24 February 2011
Ed Balls refuses to rule out hitting 300,000 more in south with 50p tax
Joe Murphy, Evening Standard, 24 February 2011
Balls: extending the 50p rate is still an option
George Eaton, New Statesman, 24 February 2011
iEngage Attacks Muslim Liberals, Defends Islamists and Hate Preachers
Harry’s Place, 19 February 2011
Prisoner votes: The controversial ECHR
Law and order, Daily Telegraph, 11 February 2011
Votes For Prisoners: Why Is Europe Involved?
Carole Erskine, Sky News Online, 10 February 2011
Society daily 07.02.11 Are cuts destroying the big society?
Clare Horton, The Guardian, 7 February 2011
Progress opposes schmoozing the City
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 3 February 2011
Labour starts to think
Anthony Barnett, openDemocracy, 2 February 2011
Labour leads on every issue – except the one that matters
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 1 February 2011
Social mobility in an age of austerity
Jeremy Miles, The Bevan Foundation, 27 January 2011
Universities admitting too many private school pupils, says Alan Milburn
Graeme Paton, Daily Telegraph, 25 January 2011
Universities must do more to end middle-class bias, says Alan Milburn
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 25 January 2011
The Big Society and the Public Service Gap
Kate Green MP, Salford Online, 25 January 2011
The Question of Big Philanthropy
Hazel Blears MP, Salford Online, 25 January 2011
Public Affairs: Soap Box
Paul Richards, PR Week, 21 January 2011
Alan Johnson resignation: Labour needs to rediscover the values and virtues of England
Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford, Daily Telegraph, 20 January 2011
Labour: We’ll try to rebuild support
Echo, 20 January 2011
Labour activists relaunch ‘Third Place First’ initiative
Chris Tarquini, Left Foot Forward, 20 Janury 2011
Labour targets Watford seat
Michael Pickard, Watford Observer, 18 January 2011
Israel friends change tack and relaunch
Martin Bright, Jewish Chronicle, 13 January 2011
Secret Lib Dem ‘Operation Detach’ is a council of despair
Tom Watson, Labour Uncut, 5 January 2011
Alternative vote: it’s not just about Nick Clegg
John Kampfner, The Guardian, 3 January 2011
Ed Miliband’s U-turn over union donors: Proposed £500 cap will only apply to individuals
Jason Groves, Daily Mail, 29 December 2010
You don’t build the future by trashing the past
Will Straw, Labour Uncut, 3 December 2010
It’s the ‘squeeze’, not the ‘middle’ that matters
New Statesman, Richard Darlington, 1 December 2010
So what exactly is ‘progressive’ in politics?
Brian Wheeler, BBC News, 25 November 2010
No briefings. No factions. No cliques.
Dan Hodges, New Statesman, 25 November 2010
Labour and Lib Dem grassroots members reach out across the divide
Patrick Wintour and Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 16 November 2010
The shame in our adoption failures
Leader, Independent on Sunday, 31 October 2010
Philip Cowley finds the incumbency factor alive and well in 2010
Philip Cowley, Labour Uncut, 7 October 2010
Another reason Labour members might vote No
John Rentoul, The Independent, 3 October 2010
There was no ‘Lurch to the Left’
Luke Akehurst’s blog, 1 October 2010
Straw on Prison
Hopi Sen, 1 October 2010
Labour Party Conference: As with all tragedies, this has been thrilling
Tanya Gold, The Telegraph, 30 September 2010
Labour 2010: Hazel Blears calls for ‘Muslim WAGS’ to help defeat radical Islam
Yakub Qureshi, Manchester Evening News, 28 September 2010
How the race has changed the Labour leadership candidates
Laurence Durnan, TotalPolitics, 16 September 2010
Media News
DWPub JournAlert, 7 September 2010
Debate
Ephraim Hardcastle, Daily Mail, 18 August 2010
Shadow ministers urge BBC to become co-operative
New Statesman, 6 August 2010
Media brief
Torin Douglas, BBC News, 6 August 2010
Miliband wants BBC to be a co-operative
Jim Pickard, Financial Tmes, 5 August 2010
Miliband and Jowell: BBC should be a co-operative
Mark Sweney, guardian.co.uk, 5 August 2010
Miliband’s Big Society
Peter Hoskin, Spectator Coffee House blog, 5 August 2010
Blair: the door is open for Hamas
Richard Angell, the Jewish Chronicle, 21 June 2010
First black female MP joins race for Labour leadership
Gordon Beart, Irish Independent, 24 May 2010
Miliband tries to ‘move on’ from Iraq invasion row
Brian Brady and Richard Osley, Independent on Sunday, 23 May 2010
Ed Miliband wins crucial backing from Neil Kinnock in Labour leadership race
Toby Helm, The Observer, 23 May 2010
David Miliband: Labour must ‘move on’ from Iraq War
Patrick Hennessy, The Daily Telegraph, 22 May 2010
David Miliband urges Labour to move on from Iraq
BBC, 22 May 2010
Labour picks its scabs over Iraq
ITN, 22 May 2010
Iraq an issue in Labour’s leadership race?
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 News, 22 May 2010
Iraq War was wrong, insists Balls
Press Association, 22 May 2010
’1997 mindset’ blamed for Labour defeat
Alex Stevenson, politics.co.uk, 22 May 2010
The left’s day of introspection
Alex Stevenson, politics.co.uk, 22 May 2010
Burnham speaks of “fear and loathing” from voters
Roland Marcellin-Horne, Left Foot Forward, 22 May 2010
Ed Miliband: Forces of hell was “awful culture”
Will Straw, Left Foot Foward, 22 May 2010
David Miliband prepares online campaign for Labour leadership bid
David Singleton, PR Week, 13 May 2010
Mandelson calls for “progressive compact with business”
James Murray, BusinessGreen, 8 April 2010
Trade unions risk becoming ‘redundant’, says Mandelson
Sam Coates, The Times, 7 April 2010
Mandelson hails ‘energised’ Labour
Alex Stevenson, politics.co.uk, 7 April 2010
Mandelson says Labour can deliver green jobs
Greenwise Business, 7 April 2010
Cameron’s pleasant but Britain now needs granite, not plastic, says Mandelson
Rachel Sylvester, The Times, 3 April 2010
Internet will be giant force in election campaign, says Lord Gould
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 1 April 2010
Wrestling with the libel hydra
Margarette Driscoll, The Sunday Times, 21 March 2010
Is this Labour’s death rattle or a rare new optimism?
Michael White, The Guardian, 15 March 2010
Chris Bryant speech warns over ‘Europhobic’ stance
George Parker, Financial Times, 10 March 2010
Labour combats Lord Ashcroft millions with Obama-style funding
Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 4 March 2010
Labour should strengthen family policy, says Caroline Flint
Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 26 February 2010
Secularist Terry Sanderson launches bizarre attack on Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy’s faith in politics
George Pitcher, The Telegraph, 23 February 2010
Jim Murphy plays the religion card to win votes
David Maddox, The Scotsman, 23 February 2010
Labour targets ‘religious’ votes
BBC News, 23 February 2010
Labour ‘must win religious vote’ in election
Simon Johnson, The Telegraph, 23 February 2010
Let’s move on – to a new politics
Letters, The Guardian, 16 February 2010
Peter Hain lends support for ‘Robin Hood tax’ on banks
Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 15 February 2010
Sex and summitry: the rise of the raunchy summit. ‘Seven sexiest summits’.
Anne McElvoy, London Evening Standard, 11 February 2010
David Miliband defends Labour against claims of ‘class war’ on Tories
Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 24 January 2010
Gordon Brown urged to push through electoral reform legislation
Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 21 January 2010
Plunging Labour now recalls it needs two wings to fly
John Harris, The Guardian, 5 January 2010
Nothern Rock could become a building society again
Alan O’Sullivan, This is Money, 15 December 2009
Whose mutualism is it anyway?
Sunder Katwala, Next Left, 15 December 2009
Brown wants to turn Britain into a giant branch of John Lewis
Mary Riddell, Daily Telegraph, 15 December 2009
Why mutualism is the way forward for public services
Tessa Jowell, The Guardian, 15 December 2009
Labour to run rule over John Lewis mutual model
Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 14 December 2009
Dave’s talked tough, now let’s have hope
Martin Ivens, Sunday Times, 13 December 2009Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 23 November 2009
Gordon Brown does U-turn over childcare tax break
Jonathan Oliver, Sunday Times, 15 November 2009
Andy Burnham told charities at risk in policy shift
Caroline Flint leads revolt over PM’s decision to drop childcare vouchers
Sunday Times, 15 November 2009
Why the mum’n’dad vote will decide the next election
Sunday Times, 15 November 2009
Gordon Brown ready to climb down over childcare vouchers plans
Patrick Hennessy, Daily Telegraph, 14 November 2009
Clawing back the cost of childcare could cost Brown far more than 10p
Tomos Livingstone, WalesOnline.co.uk, 14 November 2009
Keep tax relief on childcare vouchers
Jessica Asato, Comment is free, 13 November 2009
Blunkett calls for voting change
Mark Hookham, The Star, 12 November 2009
Ending childcare vouchers will stop many families from working
Angela Jameson, The Times, 12 November 2009
Brown heads off childcare rebellion
Torcuil Crichton, The Herald, 12 November 2009
How big is the nursery rebellion?
Jim Pickard, ft.com, 11 November 2009
PM warned over childcare vouchers
BBC, 11 November 2009
Gordon Brown warned: axing childcare vouchers will cost Labour seats
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 11 November 2009
Brown faces revolt over plan to axe childcare vouchers
New Statesman, 11 November 2009
Ex-ministers warning to Gordon Brown over childcare plans
Andy Bloxham, Daily Telegraph, 11 November 2009
Childcare tax breaks revolt grows
Press Association, 11 November 2009
MPs revolt over childcare vouchers
Channel 4 News, 11 November 2009
Ex-ministers warn over childcare tax changes
Paul Waugh, Evening Standard, 11 November 2009
Labour women warn Gordon Brown that axing childcare tax breaks will cost party seats
Kirsty Walker, Daily Mail, 11 November 2009
Gordon Brown under pressure to rethink plans to scrap tax breaks on childcare vouchers
Personneltoday.com, 11 November 2009
Childcare tax breaks revolt grows
Daily Mirror, 11 November 2009
PM Programme
BBC Radio 4, 54:00, 10 November 2009
Cuts to arts budgets would lower Britain’s earning power
Tony Hall, Daily Telegraph, 6 November 2009
Ben Bradshaw urges ‘luvvies’ to defend BBC from Tories
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 3 November 2009
Ben Bradshaw: the Tories wouldn’t fund the Royal Court’s Enron
Charlotte Higgins, guardian.co.uk, 3 November 2009
Liam Byrne: David Cameron should apologise for describing Britain as ‘broken’
Rosa Prince, Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2009
Labour plans new bank to fund community groups
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 20 October 2009
Denham challenged on Prevent
Martin Bright, Jewish Chronicle, 1 October 2009
Labour conference: Talking to itself
Editorial, The Guardian, 29 September 2009
Mandelson attacks ‘extreme rightwing figures’ for Gordon Brown pill ‘smears’
Nicholas Watt, Andrew Sparrow and agencies, guardian.co.uk, 28 September 2009
Why Labour must be careful
Nicholas Watt, guardian.co.uk, 28 September 2009
Showbiz for ugly people
Simon Redfern, PR Week, 28 September 2009
Labour: dead or alive?
John Harris, guardian.co.uk, 28 September 2009
No Progress for New Labour
Seumas Milne, The Guardian, 28 September 2009
Will Labour file a formal complaint about the pills question?
Benedict Brogan, Daily Telegraph, 27 September 2009
We are up for fight – Mandelson
Emma Griffiths, BBC, 27 September 2009
Analysis: Gordon Brown’s middle-class cash gamble
Patrick Hennessy, Daily Telegraph, 27 September 2009
Lord Mandelson: I would work for the Tories
Jonathan Oliver, The Sunday Times, 27 September 2009
Don’t despair – Labour can still win
Charles Clarke, guardian.co.uk, 24 September 2009
Gordon Brown: times are tough following expenses scandal but I won’t resign
Rosa Prince, The Telegraph, 24 September 2009
I am staying on, Gordon Brown insists after troubles and health rumours
Pre-conference double blow hits Brown
Michael Savage, The Independent, 23 September 2009
Gordon Brown dismisses ‘step down’ health slurs
Joe Murphy, Evening Standard, 23 September 2009
Clarke warns of poll ‘hammering’
BBC, 23 September 2009
James Purnell urges bigger role for unelected ministers
Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 23 September 2009
Peter Mandelson calls for constraints but silent on cuts
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 15 September 2009
Tory policy is a recipe for disaster
Steve Richards, The Independent, 15 September 2009
Perhaps Labour isn’t quite dead after all
Michael White, The Guardian, 15 September 2009
The penny drops…
Jason Beattie and Bob Roberts, Daily Mirror, 15 September 2009
Tories will cut public spending, says Labour
Mark Hennessey, Irish Times, 15 September 2009
Mandelson writes sets the scene for electoral slasher flick
Mandelson joins battle over spending cuts
Jean Eaglesham, Financial Times, 14 September 2009
Clip of Mandelson speech
BBC, 14 September 2009
Labour ‘must not lose its nerve’
BBC, 14 September 2009
Mandelson advocates ‘wise spending’
Andrew Woodcock, The Independent, 14 September 2009
Flagship projects may be put on hold, Mandelson admits
Deborah Summers, The Guardian, 14 September 2009
Analysis: difficult to spot the difference
Francis Elliott, The Times, 14 September 2009
Lord Mandelson admits Labour will have to cut spending
James Kirkup, Daily Telegraph, 14 September 2009
Mandelson sets out Labour fightback plan
ePolitix, 14 September 2009
Mandelson’s public spending pledge
PA, 14 September 2009
Lord Mandelson gives us the Labour manifesto
Janet Daley, Daily Telegraph, 14 September 2009
Lord Mandelson refuses to use c-word in spending talks
Joe Murphy, Evening Standard, 14 September 2009
Mandelson: ‘We’ll be wise spenders’
Local Government Chronicle, 14 September 2009
Mandelson shifts ground on spending cuts debate
Liz Stephens and Alex Stevenson, politics.co.uk, 14 September 2009
Mandelson: We have to prioritise and economise
inthenews.co.uk, 14 September 2009
How will Lord Mandelson know if public services productivity improves?
Jamie Whyte, The Telegraph, 14 September 2009
Mandelson to set out election line on spending
Alex Smith, Labour List, 14 September 2009
The Tories’ two faces
Pat McFadden, Comment is free, 17 August 2009
Labour MP backs US-style vote to select party leaders
Michael Settle, The Herald, 12 August 2009
Jessica Asato on Five live
5 live, 13:13, 5 August 2009
Policy blueprint seen as last throw of the dice
Alex Barker and George Parker, Financial Times, 10 June 2009
They banged their desks with approval. For Gordon Brown the coup was over
Nicholas Watt, Allegra Stratton and Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 9 June 2009
Progress event 8th June: The Elephant in the Room
Alex Finnegan, yourmandate.com, 9 June 2009
PLP sketch: The coup that never was
Alex Stevenson, politics.co.uk, 9 June 2009
Johnson would deny Tories outright victory
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 9 June 2009
In the aftermath
Simon Redfern, PR Week, 9 June 2009
Labour at risk of becoming ‘obsolete’ in local government
Jon Land, 24dash.com, 8 June 2009
News from the PLP meeting and Progress fourth term event
Alex Smith, LabourList, 8 June 2009
Byers joins calls for PM to quit
BBC, 8 June 2009
Stephen Byers calls for Gordon Brown to step down
Matthew Moore, telegraph.co.uk, 8 June 2009
Byers calls for Brown to go
Allan Mackie, Scotsman, 8 June 2009
Time for a citizens’ convention
Brian Brivati, Comment is free, 30 May 2009
Time for state to fund political parties, says James Purnell
Nicholas Watt and Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 30 May 2009
Labour’s last chance: oust Brown, then bring in PR
Polly Toynbee, Comment is free, 29 May 2009
Labour PPCs make ominous warnings on exes
Paul Waugh, Evening Standard blogs, 20 May 2009
Jessica Asato on Newsnight
Newsnight, 5.28, 20 May 2009
Julian Ware-Lane on Five Live
5 live, 12.56, 20 May 2009
Jessica Asato on Five Live
5 live Breakfast, 2.08, 19 May 2009
Cabinet rivalries led to Brown’s defeat over Gurkhas, claims Keith Vaz
Nicholas Cecil, Evening Standard, 6 May 2009
Jessica Asato on Five Live
Weekend Breakfast, BBC Radio 5 live, 8:05am, 3 May 2009
Every Labour MP is agreed – something must be done
Toby Helm, guardian.co.uk, 1 May 2009
Labour must act now to fill social policy void, says David Blunkett
Patrick Wintour and Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 1 May 2009
Brown is losing grip on power like Major, declares Labour MP
Nicholas Cecil and Joe Murphy, Evening Standard, 30 April 2009
The £15,000 Travel Lodge MPs
Benedict Brogan, telegraph.co.uk, 28 April 2009
Peter Hain on the World at One
World at One, BBC Radio 4, 6 April 2009
Labour backbenchers press for more spending
Patrick Wintour and Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian, 6 April 2009
Margaret Hodge renews warning to counter BNP threat
Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 30 March 2009
Blow for Gordon Brown as world leaders prepare to stall at G20 summit
MP calls for bankers to make a trust oath
Vincent Moss, Sunday Mirror, 29 March 2009
Next: Harriet Who?
William Underhill, Newsweek, 28 March 2009
A very public courtship dance
James Forsyth, spectator.co.uk, 26th March 2009
Call it 9/15 – the day the crucial divide in the post-Blair/Brown era took shape
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, 25 March 2009
Brown backs Europe to lead world out of economic nightmare
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 25 March 2009
Gordon Brown’s G20 doomed to fail, says Stephen Byers
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 24 March 2009
UK’s Brown confident G20 will commit to growth
Adrian Croft and Darren Ennis, Reuters, 24 March 2009
Britain cannot afford any further fiscal stimulus, King warns
Kathryn Hopkins, The Guardian, 24 March 2009
Make or break for PM
William Green, JournalLive.co.uk, 24 March 2009
Globetrotting Gordon heads off to save the world (again)
Paul Waugh, Evening Standard, 24 March 2009
Bank of England chief rules out further financial boost for UK economy
The Telegraph, 24 March 2009
Mail: ‘last throw of the dice’
Press Association, The Independent, 9 March 2009
Labour and the BNP
Dave Hill, guardian.co.uk, 6 March 2009
Change the record, Ken – and we might listen to you again
Andrew Gilligan, Evening Standard, 5 March 2009
Progress and London
Dave Hill, guardian.co.uk, 5 March 2009
The parties must end this mood of confusion and drift
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian, 2 March 2009
Labour web campaigners plot path to ‘Labour 2.0′
David Singleton, PR Week, 2 March 2009
Progress conference: Campaigning for the net generation
LabourList, 1 March 2009
Labour 2.0
Nick Anstead, nickanstead.com, 1 March 2009
Derek Draper and Labour blogging
Minister tells unions to stop boosting the BNP
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 27 February 2009
Don’t upset aspirational working class, Jowell warns Labour
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 24 February 2009
Chris Leslie on Five Live
1:40:25, Five Live, 21 February 2009
Chris Leslie on the Today programme
BBC, 21 February 2009
Call for new £20bn economy boost
BBC, 21 February 2009
£20bn bid to bounce out of downturn
The Mirror, 21 February 2009
£20bn bid to bounce out of downturn
Press Association, 21 February 2009
Morning Reports, Five Live
0:06:00, Five Live, 21 February 2009
Give Jobless Extra Pounds 10 Dole
www.istockanalyst.com, 21 February 2009
Suspend stamp duty says Gordon Brown ally
James Kirkup, The Telegraph, 20 February 2009
As British Jews come under attack, the liberal left must not remain silent
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, 4 February 2009
Exploit No 10, Blears tells candidates
Nicholas Cecil, Evening Standard, 3 February 2009
Campaigning is like sex, says Blears
Allegra Stratton, guardian.co.uk, 30 January 2009
Backlash over Brown’s plans for jobless grows
Nicholas Watt, Toby Helm and Alan Travis, The Guardian, 1 December 2008
Brown unity show with Blairites
Brian Wheeler, BBC News website, 1 December 2008
The end of principle
Martin Bright, New Statesman blog, 1 December 2008
Peter Mandelson facing questions about claim that UK will join euro
James Kirkup, The Telegraph, 1 December 2008
Mandelson at centre of ‘ditch the pound’ row
Joe Murphy, Evening Standard, 1 December 2008
Failing to join the euro has come at a price for UK
Nicholas Watt, guardian.co.uk, 1 December 2008
Brown: We must share the sacrifice
Vincent Moss, Sunday Mirror, 30 November 2008
£20bn may not be enough to save economy, warns Darling
Jane Merrick, The Independent, 30 November 2008
Darling: ‘I haven’t done enough yet to save economy’
Toby Helm and Heather Stewart, The Observer, 30 November 2008
Mumbai attacks: Overseas terror victims could get £500,000
Mark Townsend and Caroline Davies, The Observer, 30 November 2008
MUMBAI, THE SURVIVORS SPEAK
Ramola Talwar Badam, Sunday Herald, 30 November 2008
Gordon Brown claims economic reforms are part of New Labour vision
Jonathan Wynne-Jones, The Telegraph, 29 November 2008
Mandelson says British banks overreact to crisis
Frank Prenesti, Reuters, 29 November 2008
Top earners ‘to share sacrifice’
BBC News website, 29 November 2008
‘I bring people together’
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 29 November 2008
‘Where Next for New Labour?’
Liam Byrne on the Today Programme, 29 November 2008
Think-tank targets single parents
Press Association, 29 November 2008
Ex-minister in immigration blast
BBC News website, 29 November 2008
Mandelson ‘against return to 80s’
BBC News website, 24 October 2008
Avoid old policies, warns Mandelson
Press Association, 24 October 2008
Mandy: I’m No1 Tory hate figure
George Pascoe-Watson, The Sun, 24 October 2008
Anger as banks inflict higher loan rates on small businesses
Michael Savage, The Independent, 24 October 2008
Mandelson blames banks for crisis
The Herald, 24 October 208
Lord Mandelson ‘met Russian billionaire two years earlier than he admitted’
Daily Telegraph, 24 October 2008
Response: We are not stuckists from 1997
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 8 October 2008
He quit twice. Now Mandelson returns to offer aid in crisis
Patrick Wintour and David Gow, The Guardian, 4 October 2008
This 1997 tribute band is out of tune with our times
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 4 October 2008
Political briefing: Harmony amid the fraternal spite
Michael White, The Guardian, 24 September 2008
Gordon stole the show but is now upstaged by Ruth
Anne McElvoy, Evening Standard, 24 September 2008
Labour needs a wand to make Gordon Brown disappear
Alice Miles, The Times, 24 September 2008
Middle Britain ‘key’ for Labour
BBC, 24 September 2008
Back to the future call by Blairites
Keith Richmond, tribunemagazine.co.uk, 24 September 2008
Labour conference diary
Michael White, The Guardian, 23 September 2008
Global storm gives Gordon Brown shelter – for now
23 September 2008
Why Labour needs to woo Mr and Mrs Mondeo
Dan Milmo, guardian.co.uk, September 23 2008
David Miliband calls for leadership but backs down from challenging Gordon Brown
Labour conference: Gordon Brown to appeal for more time ahead of reshuffle
The Miliband paradox
John Harris, The Guardian 22 September 22 2008
A word of warning for David Miliband
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian 22 September 22 2008
Labour conference: The deadline for Gordon Brown’s last chance is slipping
Michael White, The Guardian 22 September 22 2008
Blears: This is the fight of our lives
politics.co.uk, 22 September 2008
Labour conference: Gordon Brown to appeal for more time ahead of reshuffle
Francis Elliott, Sam Coates, The Times, 22 September 2008
Contrite Brown vows ‘I want to do better’
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 22 September 2008
Miliband moves to end leader talk
BBC News, 21 September 2008
Miliband woos the left as Labour’s rebels back offGaby Hinsliff and Toby Helm, The Observer, September 21 2008
Labour loyalists back campaign for party unityguardian.co.uk, 20 September 2008
Jack Straw: At 62, I have the stamina, experience and the luck
Sam Coates, Times Online, 19 September 2008
Tax burden up 50 pc under Labour, report says
James Kirkup, Daily Telegraph, 19 September 2008
Brown should do more to devolve power, says Milburn
Andrew Sparrow, guardian.co.uk, 18 September 2008
Empowerment: The new political territory
Alan Milburn, New Statesman, 18 September 2008
Labour ‘must offer change again’
BBC News, 18 September 2008
Milburn: Brown creating uncertainty
Press Association, 18 September 2008
Cabinet fury over ‘complacency’ undermines PM
Patrick Wintour, the Guardian, 18 September 2008
Alan Milburn stirs up Labour leadership row
Philippe Naughton, The Times, 18 September 2008
Change will win back voters
Sky News, 18 September 2008
Labour duo twist the knife as Tories soar past 50% for first time since Thatcher’s heyday
James Chapman and Michael Lea, Daily Mail, 18 September 2008
Tories break 50 per cent poll barrier for first time since Thatcher
Andrew Porter, Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2008
Lib Dem MP knocks activist over a wall
Jason Beattie, The Mirror, 16 September 2008
Brown Seeks to Quell Demands for Leadership Contest (Update2)
Mark Deen, Bloomberg, 15 September 2008
MP joins calls for Labour to vastly improve
thisisderbyshire.co.uk, September 15 2008
London Labour MPs Get Stuck In
Londonist.com, 14 September 2008
Brown speech ‘will be his last as leader’
Eddie Barnes, The Scotsman, 14 September 2008
Brown sacks second Labour MP
presstv.ir, 14 September 2008
Dissidents aim to use Labour rule book to target Brown
Toby Helm, The Observer, 14 September 2008
Another damp squib, or the start of a real challenge?
Brian Brady and Jane Merrick, Independent on Sunday, 14 September 2008
Gordon Brown’s Scottish tragedy
Matthew d’Ancona, Sunday Telegraph, 14 September 2008
Watch out for the unusual suspects
Martin Ivens, Sunday Times, 14 September 2008
Ex-ministers join Gordon Brown rebellion
Jonathan Oliver, Marie Woolf, Sunday Times, 14 September 2008
Revealed: how junior whip hatched plot to depose Brown
James Cusick, Sunday Herald, 13 September 2008
Labour leadership: 60 rebels in search of a candidate
Michael White, guardian.co.uk, 13 September 2008
Labour vice-chair calls for leadership contest
guardian.co.uk, 13 September 2008
Labour Mps Pile Pressure On Pm
Sky News, 13 September 2008
Brown fires ally over contest call
Adrian Croft and Tim Castle, Reuters, 13 September 2008
Brown sacks junior whip for demanding leadership election
James Eaglesham, FT, 13 September 2008
Brown authority questioned
The Sun, 13 September 2008
Brown ‘sacks’ a second Labour figure for daring to call a leadership election
Michael Lea and Benedict Brogan, Daily Mail, 13 September 2008
Brown sacks Cyprus envoy Joan Ryan over leadership comments
The Scotsman, 13 September 2008
Brown faces leadership poll clamour
Press Association, 13 September 2008
Seven MPs in Labour contest call
BBC News, 13 September 2008
The Blairites have moved, now the left must
James Forsyth, Spectator Coffee House, 12 September 2008
Robinson’s curse
Nick Robinson, BBC News, 12 September 2008
Names will never hurt them
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 10 September 2008
Bon appétit, comrades!
Economist, 5 September 2008
There’s more wrong with New Labour than it thinks
Anne McElvoy, Evening Standard, 3 September 2008
Claimants ‘working the system’ to get council houses, says minister
James Kirkup, Daily Telegraph, 30 August 2008
Tories have touched a nerve with public, admits minister
Nicholas Watt and Severin Carrell, The Guardian, 29 August 2008
Labour minister publicly admits David Cameron has ‘touched a nerve’ with British people
Daily Mail, 29 August, 2008
Ex-minister to Labour mutineers: read top Tory’s guide to oblivion
Allegra Stratton, the Guardian, 26 August 2008
Gordon Brown is an electoral liability, says former Cabinet minister
James Kirkup, Daily Telegraph, 25 August 2008
Labour must move on after Ken’s errors, says minister
Paul Waugh, Evening Standard, 22 August 2008
Troops must set standards
Soldier Magazine, August 2008
The factions square up
Martin Bright, New Statesman, 14 August 2008
For all the noise, there are barely any uber-Blairites left
John Harris, The Guardian, 11 August 2008
Neal Lawson v Robert Philpot
The Guardian, 8 August 2008
Franchises can speed service reform
Public Servant Magazine, 7 August 2008
Gordon Brown: 10 strategies he could use to survive
Andrew Sparrow, Guardian Politics Blog, 31 July 2008
Jessica Asato on Victoria Derbyshire show discussing radical policies
BBC Radio 5 Live, 30 July 2008
Gordon Brown is down (but not out)
Steve Richards, The Independent, 29 July 2008
Labour needs a new leader – even if that means a coup
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian, 28 July 2008
Progress deputy director on Stephen Nolan show
BBC Radio 5 Live, 27 July 2008
Steve Richards, The Independent, 26 July 2008
A change of leader won’t save Labour
Cardiac arrest in Glasgow – and still the clunking mantra
Polly Toynbee, 26 July, The Guardian
Labour fears for Glasgow East as by-election rests on knife-edge
Daily Mail, 24 July 2008
Sir Richard Dannatt, Army chief, calls for soldiers to learn nation-building
The Times, 17 July 2008
General Sir Richard Dannatt: British troops should be trained as nation-builders
Daily Telegraph, 17 July 2008
‘Stabilisation’ plan for forces
Press Association, 17 July 2008
UK army chief calls for post conflict stabilization specialists
Jerusalem Post, 17 July 2008
Army chief: ‘We have socialist ideals’
Politics.co.uk, 17 July 2008
PM lets Miliband off leash to take on Eurosceptics
The Independent, 3 July 2008
UK ‘should back EU military plans’
Press Association, 3 July 2008
David Miliband backs French plans for stronger EU defence role
Daily Telegraph, 2 July 2008
Miliband signals support for French plans
Reuters, 2 July 2008
Miliband backs strong EU military force
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 2 July 2008
For all the hyperbole, Bevan would have approved of this
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 1 July 2008
Don’t abandon public service reform
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 28 June 2008
Sounds like teen spirit – Andy Burnham interview
John Harris, The Guardian, 28 June 2008
Labour slumps to lowest poll result since 1984
Andrew Porter, Daily Telegraph, 25 June 2008
The discreet rise of James Purnell
John Rentoul, Independent Open House blog, 24 June 2008
No plans for an early shuffle, says Downing St
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 24 June 2008
Who will finish off Gordon Brown? Follow the money
Rachel Sylvester, The Times, 24 June 2008
Tories will end NHS targets ‘to save 38,000 lives a year’
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 24 June 2008
Wes Streeting: Plenty to shout about
The Guardian, 24 June 2008
The undaunted freedom fighter
Jamie Doward, The Observer, 22 June 2008
In bed with the DUP? This is the really curious journey
Marina Hyde, The Guardian, 21 June 2008
This is more than a political knock-about – it’s the inexcusable smearing of an opponent
Dominic Lawson, The Independent
Harman joins Chakrabarti row
Guardian Unlimited, 20 June 2008
Chakrabarti threatens to sue over minister’s jibe
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 20 June 2008
Good Labour. Bad Labour
Denis MacShane, New Statesman, 19 June 2008
Labour will not oppose Davis
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 19 June 2008
The Tories want to deliver improved public services. But does their approach add up?
Steve Richards, The Independent, 19 June 2008
Davis ‘should fund by-election’
BBC News, 18 June 2008
Labour’s core voters are deserting them in droves since Gordon Brown took over as PM
Daily Mail, 18 June 2008
Gordon, time to learn from the master
Martin Ivens, Sunday Times, 8 June 2008
August bank holiday could be celebration of Britishness
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 3 June 2008
August bank holiday should be British national day, says minister
James Kirkup, Daily Telegraph, 3 June 2008
Former Minister Offers PM Policy Advice
Sky News, 30 May 2008
MPs’ plan to win over Middle England voters
Thisislondon.co.uk, 30 May 3008
Labour polling ‘worse than under Foot’
inthenews.co.uk, 30 May 2008
Group of Blairite MPs urge Brown to cuts taxes and be bolder
The First Post, 30 May 2008
Call for motoring tax reform
Epolitix, 30 May 2008
Cut taxes to regain middle class support, Blairites tell Brown
Colin Brown, The Independent, 30 May 2008
Labour signals retreat on road tax increase
Daily Telegraph, 28 May 2008
The country wants a leader with style and swagger
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian, 27 May 2008
Gordon Brown faces ‘quit now’ calls as Labour MPs panic
Philip Webster, The Times, 24 May 2008
BBC News website, 23 May 2008
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 22 May 2008
In quotes: By-election reaction
Now the unions turn on Brown
Labour must play fair to win back voters, says TUC chief
The Herald, 22 May 2008
Brown ‘hiding in bunker’ as poll looms
The Scotsman, 22 May 2008
Brown losing friends. Rapidly
Peter Hoskin, Spectator, 22 May 2008
Labour leadership sniping starts already as disaster looms for Brown in Crewe by-election
Mail Online, 22 May 2008
Plan to oust Brown as MPs claim he has lost support
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 19 May 2008
Mass public sector strikes threat over 2% pay policy
David Hencke, The Guardian, 22 May 2008
Divided Labour worries Hain
Politics.co.uk, 19 May 2008
Hain publishes Welsh Labour prescription
Epolitix, 19 May 2008
Peter Hain: blame will not help Labour to rebuild
Steve Bagnall, Daily Post, 19 May 2008
Labour alienating voters by offering two extremes, says ex-minister Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 19 May 2008
The ultras and the core Peter Hain, The Guardian, 19 May 2008
Hain calls for radical change within Welsh Labour Western Mail, 19 May 2008
Regroup, frefocus, reprioritise – and that starts at the top
Martin Kettle, The Guardian, 10 May 2008
Labour is losing touch with voters, warns minister
Macer Hall, Daily Expresss, 9 May 2008
Labour slump to rock bottom in the polls – 26 per cent behind the Tories and at their lowest rating since records began in the 1930s
James Chapman, Daily Mail, 9 May 2008
Culture of denial
Martin Bright, New Statesman, 8 May 2008
New Labour is finished. The fight is over what replaces it
Seuman Milne, The Guardian, 8 May 2008
Labour looks at tax options as poll looms
George Parker and Jean Eaglesham, Financial Times, 7 May 2008
Clarke tells Brown to give up ‘dog-whistle politics’
Andrew Grice and Colin Brown, The Independent, 7 May 2008
Charles Clarke: PM could be KO’d ‘in months’
George Pascoe-Watson, The Sun, 7 May 2008
TAXED TO THE LIMIT
Macer Hall, Daily Express, 7 May 2008
Now Labour accused of attempt to ‘politicise police’ after ministers ask terror chief to make the case for 42-day detentions
Evening Standard, 7 May 2008
Gordon Brown attacked by Charles Clarke
Andrew Porter, Daily Telegraph, 7 May 2008
Half of Labour voters say Gordon Brown should step aside
Andrew Porter, Daily Telegraph, 7 May 2008
Clarke urges Brown to drop 42-day detention
Elizabeth Stewart and Andrew Sparrow, guardian.co.uk,6 May 2008
Brown gets another political soaking
Michael White, guardian.co.uk, 6 May 2008
Clarke lashes out (again)
Matthew D’Ancona, spectator.co.uk, 6 May 2008
Charles Clarke accuses Brown of ‘dog whistle politics’
The First Post, 6 May 2008
‘Mini budget is needed to sort out 10p tax’, demands Labour ‘big beast ‘ Charles Clarke
Benedict Brogan, Mail on Sunday, 4 May 2008
The day Boris became Mayor was the beginning of the end for Dave
John Rentoul, Independent on Sunday, 4 May 2008
It’s Labour stalwart versus Tory fop – dress rehearsal for the really big one
Jonathan Freedland, the Guardian, 30 April 2008
Streetfighter
Backbencher, guardian.co.uk, 16 April 2008
Lewis intervention makes life even more difficult for Brown
The First Post, 31 March 2008
Brown issues rallying call to quell unrest
George Parker, Financial Times, 31 March 2008
Minister warns Brown: ‘You’re out of touch’
James Chapman, Daily Mail, 31 March 2008
Gordon Brown out of touch, says minister
Robert Winnett, Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2008
Brown tries to steady MPs’ nerves
Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 31 March 2008
Senior govt minister brands his own party as no-hopers
Ian Kirby, News of the World, 30 March 2008
Polls show Labour will lose votes in the South
Rosa Prince, Daily Telegraph, 25 March 2008
Brown and the conservatory-building classes
Rachel Sylvester, Daily Telegraph, 25 March 2008
Brown in danger of losing southern England
George Parker, Financial Times, 24 March 2008
Gordon Brown’s fate is to find his future tied to Ken Livingstone
Martin Ivens, Sunday Times, 23 March 2008
A shot of southern comfort can unite the warring halves of Labour’s brain
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 21 March 2008
Hazel Blears tells Labour: we need to win back the middle classes
Toby Helm, Daily Telegraph, 20 March 2008
Blairites tell Gordon Brown to rethink policies
Jill Sherman, The Times, 20 March 2008
Pandering to the Guardian?
Michael White, Comment is Free, 20 March 2008
Blairite Brown has put Labour in pincer trap, say leftist MPs
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 20 March 2008
Labour ‘must not pander to the Guardian’, says Blears
Andrew Sparrow, Guardian Unlimited, 19 March 2008
Cabinet thrashes out ideas for big election battles to come
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 19 March 2008
Labour future: blueprint for a fourth term
Jon Trickett and Charles Clarke, The Guardian, 18 March 2008
Being rich ‘should be celebrated’
BBC News, 12 March 2008
Hutton call to ‘celebrate’ millionaires receives an icy response from the TUC
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 12 March 2008
Darling urged to deliver on child poverty
George Parker, FT, 12 March 2008
Labour moderniser John Hutton says UK ‘needs more millionaires’
Philip Webster, The Times, 11 March 2008
The minister for fatcats is stuck in a Blairite time warp
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, 11 March 2008
Celebrate huge salaries, minister tells Labour
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 10 March 2008
If only it realised, Labour is coming close to a revelation
John Harris, The Guardian, 6 March 2008
PM mulls general election for June 2009
Andrew Grice, The Independent, 5 March 2008
Miliband: no turning back on reform of public services
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 7 February 2008
It’s not a big idea but the old ideas that Brown needs now
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian, 4 February 2008
Can Brown turn it around? Probably not
John Rentoul, The Independent on Sunday, 3 February 2008
Petty political sniping isn’t a sign of progress
Rod Liddle, The Sunday Times, 3 February 2008
Labour needs to take a good hard look at the opposition
Martin Kettle, The Guardian, 2 February 2008
Top Blairites launch attack against ‘do-nothing’ Brown
Daily Mail, 1 February 2008
Ex-minister warns Brown must regain focus
The Scotsman, 1 February 2008
Brown’s growing list of armchair critics
Guardian Unlimited, 1 February 2008
Michael White discusses Progress
Guardian podcast, 1 February 2008
Minister tell PM: we must wake up to the Tory threat
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 1 February 2008
Clarke: Labour must focus on the future
Colin Brown, The Independent, 1 February 2008
Brown must improve to avoid ten years of Tories
James Kirkup, Daily Telegraph, 1 February 2008
Clarke: Labour needs to generate new ideas
Michael Settle, The Herald, 1 February 2008
Clarke warns on policy direction
The Financial Times, 31 January 2008
Charles Clarke interview
Channel 4 News, 31 January 2008
Anxious Charles Clarke demands Labour policy clarity
In the News, 31 January 2008
Brown warned he could lose election
Reuters, 31 January 2008
Kamikaze Conway?
Nick Robinson’s Blog, BBC News, 31 January 2008
Labour ‘must spell out policies’
BBC News, 31 January 2008
Clarke warns on Labour direction
Epolitix, 31 January 2008
Diverging views
David Walker, Society Guardian, 23 January 2008
Public sector reform is far from over, but now it’s staff and communities who must lead the way
Andy Burnham, The Guardian, 16 January 2008
More risk-taking in public sector urged by minister
Patrick Wintour and David Brindle, The Guardian, 16 January 2008
The Tories need to get real on the issue of social mobility
David Blunkett, The Guardian, 15 January 2008
When there’s no more room at the top
Peter Wilby, New Statesman, 10 January 2008
The perils of precedent
Robert Philpot, 9 January 2008
Former cabinet minister calls for social reforms
Alison Bennett, Children and Young People Now, 8 January 2008
Blunkett urges learning support
Tom Smithard, Yorkshire Post, 8 January 2008
Blunkett cash plan for pupils
Sheffield Star, 8 January 2008
Blunkett calls for extra support for UK’s poorest children
24dash.com, 8 January 2008
‘Rich can fund kids’
Daily Mirror, 8 January 2008
Listen again to David Blunkett’s report on Tuesday morning’s Today programme
BBC Radio 4, 8 January 2008
Blunkett sets out scheme to stop formation of underclass
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 7 January 2008
Blood on the dancefloor
John Harris, The Guardian, 5 January 2008
Brown must graciously accept this olive branch
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian, 31 December 2007
Whatever happened to the Blairites?
Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 19 December 2007
Private matters
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 28 November 2007
Brownites risk ditching public sector reform, says Blair adviser
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, Tuesday 27 November 2007
U-turn on ‘sport for all’ pledge
Jo Revill, The Observer, Sunday 25 November 2007
Be bold, Gordon: show us the red thread running through your policies
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, Friday 9 November 2007
The politics of fear
Martin Bright, New Statesman, Thursday 8 November 2007
Minister’s fear on pace of reform
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, Tuesday 6 November 2007
(Letters in response, Wednesday 7 November)
BBC Politics Show
BBC 2, Sunday 4 November 2007
The World this Weekend
BBC Radio 4, Sunday 4 November 2007
‘Labour has made mistakes’
Sunday Mirror, Sunday 4 November 2007
We’ve made mistakes, Balls admits
Guardian breaking news, Saturday 3 November 2007
Tessa Jowell: Gangs are skilled entrepreneurs
By Brendan Carlin, Daily Telegraph, 26 September 2007
Labour ‘united despite mistakes’
BBC News Online, Saturday 3 November 2007
Who really cares about Europe?
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 24 October 2007
Prison isn’t working
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 3 October 2007
MPs split over election date
BBC News Online, 26 September 2007
Mandy’s flirtation with Communism
By Jessica Asato, New Statesman Online, 25 September 2007
Ministers enjoy a spot of Dave-bashing
By Ros Taylor, Guardian Unlimited, 25 September 2007
Minister mulls difficulties of linking up 43 police forces
By Alan Travis, Guardian Unlimited, 25 September 2007
Q&A: Young Labour Party Conference delegates
By Andy Jones, thelondonpaper, 24 September 2007
Mandelson ends his feud with Brown
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 24 September 2007
Mandelson makes peace with PM
By Ros Taylor, Guardian Unlimited, 24 September 2007
Peter Mandelson ends feud with Gordon Brown
By Toby Helm, the Telegraph, 24 September 2007
Brown to delay poll decision as he sets out stall for fourth term
By Andrew Grice, the Independent, 24 September 2007
Progress on all Compass points
By John Harris, Comment is Free, 24 September 2007
Miliband: we want ten more years in power
By Nicholas Watt, The Observer, 23 September 2007
Labour appoints election director
BBC News Online, 9 August 2007
Would-be deputies join the debate but try not to mention the B-word
By Fran Yeoman, The Times, 17 May 2007
Hain plays the unity card in deputy leader campaign
By Colin Brown, The Independent, 17 May 2007
Education and quest for unity dominate hustings
By Will Woodward, The Guardian, 17 May 2007
‘I did what I thought was right’
By Patrick Wintour and Will Woodward, The Guardian, 11 May 2007
Today, the beginning of the end
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 10 May 2007
Jowell calls for end to tribalism
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 1 May 2007
End this damaging party feud, Jowell tells Labour tribes
By Philip Webster, The Times, 1 May 2007
Blair’s bloody legacy: Iraq
By Andrew Grice, The Independent, 1 May 2007
Reid call for unity hands the crown to Brown
By Graeme Wilson, The Daily Telegraph, 30 April 2007
Blair to endorse Brown – finally
By Ned Temko, Nicholas Watt and Lorna Martin, The Observer, 30 April 2007
Senator Double Talk
Robert Philpot, The Guardian, 2 October 2006
Mandelson warns over union power
By Ollie Stone-Lee, BBC News, 25 September 2006
Fresh attempt to oust PM bound to backfire, says Mandelson
By Tania Branigan, The Guardian, 25 September 2006
Labour unveils plans for BBC-style charter for the NHS
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 23 September 2006
Freedom is a moral goal
By James Purnell, The Guardian, 23 September 2006
Cameron is lucky Milburn and Brown hate each other
By Matthew d’Ancona, Telegraph.co.uk, 17 September 2006
Cabinet turns on Brown in hunt for ‘alternative PM’
By Gaby Hinsliff and Ned Temko, The Observer, 10 September 2006
Blair to Brown: I won’t do what you demand
By Gaby Hinsliff and Ned Temko, The Observer, 10 September 2006
Relaxed and jovial Blair ‘on form’
By Brian Wheeler, BBC News, 10 September 2006
Blair calls for halt to sniping
BBC News, 10 September 2006
Blair seeks fresh policies to avoid ‘lame duck’ tag
By Andrew Grice, The Independent, 24 August 2006
Labour to attack Cameron over ‘Bush politics’
By Ned Temko, The Observer, 5 August 2006
Twitchy Labour MPs look to ditch Brown along with Blair
By Rachel Sylvester, Daily Telegraph, 4 July 2006
Voting Tory ‘no longer shameful’
By James Landale, BBC News 24, 3 July 2006
How Brown ‘stepped back from the precipice’
By Ned Temko, The Observer, 21 May 2006
Who can unite the north and south?
By Andrew Grice, The Independent, 20 May 2006
Labour left flexes muscles in merger
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 19 May 2006
Anger as Harman suggests electoral role for ID database
By Ros Taylor, Guardian Unlimited, 11 May 2006
Bad for Blair may not be good for Brown
By Michael White, The Guardian, 28 April 2006
Back school reforms, Kelly urges
BBC News, 13 March 2006
Labour heavyweights video support for schools bill
By Alexandra Smith, The Guardian, 13 March 2006
My week: Oona King
By Oona King, The Observer, 5 March 2006
No answer yet to the Cameron Question
The Guardian, 9 February 2006
Blair and Brown discuss transfer of power ‘but no date set’
By Julian Glover, The Guardian, 6 February 2006
The NHS needs localisation, not regulated privatisation
By Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, 14 December 2005
Party believes softly, softly approach is best strategy
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 7 December 2005
Minister calls for new type of worker
Community Care, 20 October 2005
Tony’s die-hards join the rebels
Evening Standard, 19 October 2005
May the best men win
The Guardian, 17 October 2005
Blair: Tories are copying Labour
By Ned Temko, The Observer, 16 October 2005
Blair attacks Labour’s ‘old left’
BBC News, 15 October 2005
Faith schools warned: open gates to all or be shut down
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 15 October 2005
Leadership team prepares for battle with unions
By Michael White and Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 26 September 2005
Labour ‘must stay in centre’
BBC News, 25 September 2005
Labour has learnt nothing from the shock of last May
By Rachel Sylvester, Telegraph.co.uk, 27 June 2005
Labour MPs call for swing back to left
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 26 May 2005
Festering Blair-Brown split
By Tom Baldwin, The Times, 26 May 2005
Third-term tension reopens
By Tom Baldwin, The Times, 26 May 2005
Blair does mind the wealth gap
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 24 March 2005
Parents wooed by jittery Blair
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 21 March 2005
Choice has become a four letter word
By David Walker, The Guardian, 16 February 2005
No 10 plans closure of failing schools to boost most popular
By Andrew Grice, The Independent, 8 February 2005
Bad schools face closure in plan for more choice
By Phillip Webster, The Times, 8 February 2005
Popular schools must be allowed to expand
The Independent, 8 February 2005
Left speechless at the events
By Lisa Harker, Third Sector, 27 October 2004
Traditional Labour racist, says Hodge
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 27 September 2004
Blair waits on the fence for US election result
By Andrew Grice, The Independent, 4 September 2004
We’ll be in power for decades
By George Pascoe Watson, The Sun, 29 July 2004
Labour could be in power for decades
By George Jones, The Telegraph, 29 July 2004
We could stay in power for decades, says loyalist
By Jane Merrick, The Daily Mirror, 29 July 2004
Browned Off
The Daily Mirror, 29 July 2004
We can drive a stake through Thatcherism
By Bob Roberts, The Daily Mirror, 29 July 2004
Fatal Boasts
The Sun, 29 July 2004
Blair claims Labour is more united than ever
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 22 July 2004
Mandelson expected to be named as EU commissioner
By Andrew Grice, The Independent, 22 July 2004
Mandelson set for Brussels as Blair finalises reshuffle plans
By Michael White and Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 22 July 2004
Confident Prime Minister reveals plans for third term
By Helen Rumbelow, The Times, 22 July 2004
Ten years on, his party is sullen, the voters feel betrayed – and Blair is rejuvenated
By Andrew Grice, The Independent, 21 July 2004
PM wants third term – Milburn
The Journal, 15 July 2004
Decision time at the ballot box
By Robert Philpot, Guardian Letters, 10 June 2004
Voters turn against choice in public services
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 21 March 2004
Picky punters
By David Walker, The Guardian, 17 March 2004
Coping with co-payments
The Guardian, 16 March 2004
Hoon denies saying Bush must go
By Tom Baldwin, The Times, 14 March 2004
Warning to Labour: don’t take a third general election victory for granted
By Donald Macintyre, The Independent, 12 February 2004
Blair focuses on domestic agenda
BBC News, 12 February 2004
Former MPs accused of undermining public trust
By Andrew Grice, The Independent, 12 February 2004
Dean’s bid for White House alarms Blair allies
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 13 January 2004
Drive by Milburn to ensure Blairism outlives Blair
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 16 December 2003
On the bias
By Ros Taylor, Guardian Unlimited, 21 October 2003
Politics
By John Kampfner, New Statesman, 6 October 2003
Top thinktanks warn Labour
By Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, 15 September 2003
Hain urges new vision to prevent Tory revival
By Michael White, The Guardian, 6 September 2003
Brown and Blair at war over euro
By Anne Perkins, The Guardian, 27 July 2001
Don’t rule out a euro vote this term, says Labour’s chairman
By Andrew Grice, The Independent, 26 July 2001