National Policy Forum Articles

It was like listening to a conversation through two baked bean tins and a piece of string … with cotton wool wedged in my ears. I could just about manage to catch Red Ken’s dulcet tones banging on about Blair (or it could have been Clare!) and how the neoliberals sold...

At the weekend I met a couple who have just joined the Labour party in my home town Witney. The two of them cornered me at a birthday bash for another new member, an old friend of mine. These are just a few of the men and women, old and young, who have boosted Witney...

Part of Labour’s general election strategy is to win the votes of first-time voters, young and old. This requires getting those who have never voted before onto the register and out of the door on polling day: not a small challenge. Too often the conversation around...

The general election is now less than eight months away and as the political battlelines are being drawn Labour is defining a new message: gaining power to give it away. The period since the last general election has been interesting. With unprecedented cuts targeted...