general election 2017 Articles

Richard Angell on all the ups and downs from the last 12 months Copeland byelection The Progress team started the new year as we meant to carry on: knocking doors. The byelection in the Labour stronghold of Copeland had been called after member of parliament Jamie...

For an ideology grounded in modernity, New Labour now feels very behind the times – and so do Labour’s moderates. So what comes next, asks Anthony Painter   As New Labour headed towards a decade in power, the world of mid-2007 looked remarkably similar to the world of...

The shadow local government secretary Andrew Gwynne takes Richard Angell and Conor Pope behind the scenes of the surprise election 'I’m infamous now’, Andrew Gwynne declares. He was ‘walking along the Embankment’ to parliament recently when he noticed two people...

In seats where the votes of Jewish communities could have made a difference, Labour underachieved, writes Ella Rose The Jewish community is small, concentrated in just a handful of seats across the country. We must ask the difficult question after the general election...