Nick Forbes Articles

May's weakness exposed, leadership in local government and an impressive start for Open Labour – Progress director Richard Angell has this week's Last Word The Tories in 2015 told Britain not to vote Labour because Ed Miliband would be a disaster for the economy and...

It has taken a while for Labour local government to be properly recognised by the party nationally. While there is still much work to be done, the efforts of Labour LGA under the leadership of Nick Forbes and the brilliant Jim McMahon before him, mean that the...

Alison McGovern: Thank you for showing me lovely Newcastle, it's been really great. Clearly people here have voted Labour, we had gains last year in 2015 when we didn't win nationally. If you had to say, if I had to force you to say why you think more people came out...

Leading for Leeds —The Labour administration in Leeds has had more than its fair share of challenges as we enter the seventh year of Tory austerity. Between 2010 and March 2016 Leeds city council will have had to deliver savings of £330m. That is despite 175,000...