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Heidi Alexander Articles

Nobody can stop Labour members deciding Brexit

Skulduggery at conference won the battle but will not win the war, write Alison McGovern and Heidi Alexander If you ask Labour party members what the biggest issue facing our country is they would overwhelmingly tell you it is our impending departure from the European...

Chaos under Corbyn

A year in decline under hard-left control September 12 – Jeremy Corbyn wins 59 per cent of the vote in the ballot to become Labour’s new leader. Having secured 251,417 votes he becomes Ed Miliband’s even more leftwing successor. In a rambling speech with no notes,...

Labour must lead to save the NHS

This week, emergency wards in England will be empty of junior doctors for the first time since the creation of the NHS. This is the sorry endgame to the dispute between the British Medical Association and health secretary Jeremy Hunt over the imposition of a new...

Hunting for a way out

Late last week Heidi Alexander made a last-ditch plea to the government in a bid to halt imposition and instead pursue a pilot of the new contract with independent evaluation and auditing of 'the weekend effect', an idea co-signed from across the House of Commons and...