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John Smith’s legacy 20 years after his death —Being leader of the Labour party is never an easy task. But it is harder still for those who history has dealt a hand that confronts them with the challenge of radically changing the party. John Smith became leader just...

I have been watching with some amusement and not a small level of annoyance various members of parliament and party grandees playing out a back-and-forth in the blogosphere over whether a future Labour administration should govern with the Liberal Democrats....

Collins helps make Labour fit for the 21st century I attended my first Labour party annual conference 30 years ago. I was the 17-year-old delegate from Enfield Southgate CLP, conference was in Blackpool, and Neil Kinnock had been party leader for just a year. At that...

Let's complete John Smith's unfinished business As we commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war, it is ironic that the Labour party is looking again at a structure that largely emerged from that period. When the war began the party existed as a...