Owen Smith Articles

Anoosh Chakelian hit the general election campaign trail to find out what was behind the late Labour surge A few weeks before the general election, I was out reporting on the campaign trail with a Labour candidate whose marginal seat – going by the polling – looked...

After the events of this summer, being a Progressive can feel a lonely place. Seeing long standing friends from across our movement post photos of their shredded membership cards has been heart breaking. This is not only because people who have contributed so much to...

Jade Azim describes the five steps the Labour leadership must now take Conference season is long over, but the Conservatives have continued their pitch to the nation of a hard Brexit and insular country. Labour, meanwhile, lags in the polls by 17 percentage points....

One of the (few) positives of the leadership election and the Liverpool conference is that they forced Jeremy Corbyn to make speeches about policy. Up to then Corbyn had behaved like an Old Testament prophet who rails against austerity, inequality and social...