English parliament Articles

Any relationship should be ‘reciprocal", or ‘two-way’ for it to work and that principle should also apply to a political party and its relationship with a country. The 2015 general election highlighted grave relationship problems in England between Labour and its...

There is a headlong rush to the sunlit uplands where easy answers lay. One route is being blazed by the Corbynistas. Abler comrades than I can contribute to Progress to slay that particular dragon. Another is for a reawakening of an English identity. There are two...

This month’s rather unexpected political debate over the causes of the first world war (unexpected, because I never previously thought of the conduct of Kaiser Wilhelm as a ‘wedge issue’, nor did I expect to hear Cambridge historian Richard Evans call Michael Gove a...

Last week I decided to attend the Purple Book event organised by Progress in Manchester. As the former chair of Manchester Young Labour I was particularly interested in how The Purple Book talks about the role of young members in ensuring we win back government in...