John Prescott Articles

What should Labour’s vision for working-class voters be?  Hazel Blears and Owen Jones enter into an exchange of views Dear Owen You and I both care passionately about making sure working-class families get a fair deal and a chance to get on in life, but that must mean...

Against the backdrop of the relentless tide of bad news the coalition has faced in recent weeks, the quarterly crime statistics released last week must have provided a rare moment of relief for the government. Most types of crime were down, recorded crime as a whole...

A Liberal Democrat collapse might not bring Labour all that it hopes, suggests Robert Philpot In the early 1950s, surveying the wreckage of the once-great party he led, Liberal leader Clement Davies admitted that people would ‘come to the conclusion that there is no...

We must become the party that makes change happen in local communities By Iain McNicol —As a young organiser soon after Tony Blair became leader I was sent from London to help in Dorset South. Operation Toehold turned paper candidates into an election campaign team –...