Liam Byrne Articles

Counter Extremism, Defeating ISIS, and Winning the Battle of Ideas Full disclosure: I met Liam Byrne to discuss his ideas for his new book Black Flag Down: Counter Extremism, Defeating ISIS, and Winning the Battle of Ideas. He has an excellent grasp of detail. I have...

The Progress editorial this month has correctly identified that the absence of a distinctive Labour project for the British economy has made it difficult for us to re-establish our credibility and take George Osborne successfully to task. All politicians claim to be...

Labour must join forces with reform-minded business, argues Liam Byrne In the battle against spiralling inequality, progressives are not alone. Across the business community there is fast forming a new consensus that our economy today is quite simply too unequal, too...

Labour must learn again how to win over those who voted Tory If you seek a culprit for Labour’s defeat in 2015, look no further than David Marquand, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. Marquand did not mean to cause Labour’s defeat. I suspect he regrets it, and...