Blue Labour Articles

Margaret Hodge tells Robert Philpot about the lessons of the ‘bloody difficult’ campaign to drive the BNP out of Barking ‘It is’, says Margaret Hodge, ‘the most important thing I have ever done.’ On a night which offered little cheer for Labour supporters, Nick...

It is both interesting and heartening that the most fruitful and constructive strands of debate taking place within Labour about the party’s future in large part concur in the view that the state must and can change by becoming more open, with greater involvement by...

New Labour and blue Labour have much to learn from each other, argues James Purnell I remember sitting with the late Philip Gould last year talking about blue Labour. He was intrigued by Maurice Glasman, the academic who had come up with the moniker, which was then...

Near-fatally wounded last year, blue Labour is back at the heart of the party’s debate. Richard Darlington talks to its key players It has been quite a journey for blue Labour. Bursting onto the scene after the party’s election defeat and proclaimed by many as its...