John Smith Articles

Twenty years after Tony Blair’s election as party leader, Peter Mandelson tells Robert Philpot and Richard Angell why winning the centre-ground is more important than ever Peter Mandelson’s autobiography bills him as the ‘third man’ of New Labour, an indispensable...

John Smith’s legacy 20 years after his death —Being leader of the Labour party is never an easy task. But it is harder still for those who history has dealt a hand that confronts them with the challenge of radically changing the party. John Smith became leader just...

Let's complete John Smith's unfinished business As we commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war, it is ironic that the Labour party is looking again at a structure that largely emerged from that period. When the war began the party existed as a...

Like every ordinary Labour party member, I am working towards the election of a majority Labour government in 2015. And like most responsible citizens, I would like to see the fiscal deficit brought down and a tax system where everyone ‘pays their fair share’. There...