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Gareth Thomas Articles

Who’s got their party back?

Well, that escalated quickly. When he entered the Labour leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn was best known to historians of British parliamentary rebellions. While he has long been a doughty campaigner for the British left, they had not seen him as being at the very...

Runners and riders

Lewis Baston profiles the candidates in Labour's London mayor candidate selection Diane Abbott has been member of parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman ever elected to parliament. Before being elected she...

PMQs in the shadow of the reshuffle

There were some pretty discontented former ministers scattered round the House of Commons this lunchtime. The reshuffle has taken its toll. Former secretary of state for education Michael Gove looked particularly disenchanted. He was officially revealed today in the...

A game-changer in our European future

Monday’s CBI report on Britain’s membership of the European Union is a serious piece of work and could turn out to be a game-changer. Not just for the European debate but for Labour’s position in it, and for Labour’s relations with the business community. It was...