Labour Party Annual Conference 2011 Articles

On the last day of party conference I took part in a discussion with Caroline Flint on Standing As A Councillor. One of the questions put forward was related to the local government settlement. My response was short and sweet - this government does not understand the...

With the collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote it is tempting for Labour party campaigners in areas where they’ve long been strong to sit back and wait for council seats to fall. And to an extent this is effective – recent polling from YouGov suggests that more than a...

The party conferences showed that small business is on the agenda again for both parties and is big news. Make no mistake, it will be on the agenda all the way through this parliament. The Tories will try to paint themselves as the friend of enterprise and Labour as...

So Labour Party Conference passed the Refounding Labour proposals. By a whopping 94% (99% among affiliates, 88% among CLPs (constituency parties)). 21 pages of narrative, 107 pages of new rulebook, and an NEC statement. So does that mean Labour is “refounded”? No, not...