Progress Rally Articles

Why do we do this to ourselves? I've been coming to conference to eat wilting sandwiches and drink warm wine for 19 years now. But the reason I’m here and the reason I am part of Labour has never changed. I do this job, I’m part of this movement, because I believe...

Yesterday evening, through the less-than-welcoming weather, hundreds of activists came together at the Manchester Comedy Store to listen to what can only be described as a superstar line-up of our most inspiring progressive voices at the annual Progress Rally. The...

Thank you. First, please take it as read that I believe the Labour government achieved fabulous things, so I don’t need to list them for you. Also, I won’t talk at length about my chapter in the Purple Book – save to say, it’s good. Buy it. What I do want to say are a...

Sometimes, let’s face it, it’s not easy to be in the Labour party in opposition. After the afternoon’s sublimely disappointing experience of a debate on party reform in which precious little seemed to have been reformed, it was a blessed relief to arrive in a room...