George Lansbury Articles

At the last five general elections the British public has voted in favour of a prime minister who offers centrism, charisma, competence and confidence. Labour’s response to this has been to replace Ed Miliband with Jeremy Corbyn. For some it may be difficult to know...

This year will mark the 80th anniversary of the Labour party leadership election of 1935. Its long-term historical significance is not in doubt, for its winning candidate went on to become the 20th century’s most successful prime minister, leading the great postwar...

The birth of New Labour was an electrifying ride into the future, recalls Paul Richards Before Iraq, before the ludicrous calls for impeachment and citizens’ arrests, before the avalanche of hate, there once was a leader of the Labour party who did a most incredible...

The concept of the ‘lost leader’ is a recurring idea in political history. In 1997, Edward Pearce’s The Lost Leaders: The Best Prime Ministers We Never Had considered the Conservatives’ RA Butler and Iain Macleod and Labour’s Denis Healey. Will Crooks was not,...