National Policy Forum Articles

Tony Blair tells the story of walking down the street in his constituency one weekend and bumping into a long-standing party member. ‘I didn’t see you at the last branch meeting’, says TB. ‘If I’d known it was the last branch meeting’, replied the member, ‘I’d have...

We must avoid a poverty of ambition on foodbanks —Milton Keynes, where Labour’s National Policy Forum is meeting this month, is the type of place which Labour needs to win in order to gain a majority in 2015. Labour’s candidate in Milton Keynes South, Andrew Pakes,...

What the National Policy Forum might have been —This month Labour’s National Policy Forum will meet in Milton Keynes to hammer out the final stages of the party’s policy process, and, in theory, decide the policies that will go into the manifesto.
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The challenges Labour in local government has faced in recent years mirror those the next Labour government would have to deal with from day one. Being in power requires hard choices. To govern in these times is to walk the narrow path between reducing resources and...