Peter Hain Articles

While Brexiteers bury their heads in the sand over the consequences of leaving for the island of Ireland, important voices insist these could be very serious. The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is visiting Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow at the end of this week to urge both...

Mandatory reselection could reduce Labour MPs to the status of delegates The idea of mandatory reselection of Labour members of parliament was born out of the frustration with the 1960s and 1970s governments which, according to the Labour left, routinely ignored...

This is an ambitious attempt by a former Labour cabinet minister to rethink Labour’s doctrine and policy agenda for the post-crisis age. Peter Hain is audacious in aligning his own revisionism with that of the great post war theoretician, Anthony Crosland, who...

If Scotland votes ‘No’ this month, Labour must move quickly to define the victory, says John McTernan If, as all the polls have consistently predicted, the ‘No’ campaign triumphs in this month’s Scottish referendum, it will be a great victory for Labour. But then the...