Governing Britain Articles

Labour suffered a painful defeat in 2010 and a worse one in 2015. Jon Cruddas’ review of our election defeat Labour’s Future showed that voters did not trust us on the economy and did not like where we stood on welfare, immigration, and business. In short, the party...

Alison McGovern: Thank you for showing me lovely Newcastle, it's been really great. Clearly people here have voted Labour, we had gains last year in 2015 when we didn't win nationally. If you had to say, if I had to force you to say why you think more people came out...

The spirit of the New Town movement can inspire the new era of Labour in local government, leader of Stevenage borough council Sharon Taylor tells chair of Progress Alison McGovern as she tours the country meeting the Labour leaders who are governing Britain Alison...

Thank you, Theo, and thank you to everyone for coming. I took over as chair of Progress late last year. An organisation with some history, having been formed in the enthusiasm for the historic Labour government that broke the tyranny of 18 years of Tory misrule. But,...