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Local Labour must lead the way, says Alison McGovern When the next Labour prime minister chairs their first cabinet meeting in Downing Street, the real experts in government will not be around the table. There will be precious few on Labour’s frontbench who have...

Labour should be learning from its mistakes, not repeating them, warns Spencer Livermore The general election in 2015 was a winnable election for the Labour party. It was an election that we could and should have won, had different decisions been made over the course...

Never again should Labour play fast and loose with working people’s lives The Labour party is full of idealists; it is one of the things I like about it most. But its ability to wish the situation to be better than it is sometimes has no bounds. Ed Miliband’s Labour...

We must avoid shopping list politics Days after the election, as I was fastening my daughter’s school council badge onto her uniform, she looked at me, smiled, and said, ‘At least one of us knows how to win an election, Mummy’. Out of the mouths of babes … I didn’t...