Portsmouth Articles

When I was asked to contribute a chapter to Tristram Hunt’s book on Labour’s identity crisis, I was only too willing. Reliving the traumatic events of May 2015 may not appear to be the best form of catharsis, but in the context of the party’s subsequent flight from...

As a losing candidate in the recent general election, in a seat Labour held from 1997-2010, I made my contribution to the four million conversations that the party pledged to have with voters. However, those conversations not only told us what the party did not want...

Like many activists who live in other regions, I was pleased with the electoral triumph in May of Labour in London. But reading all those celebratory tweets from those who ran Labour’s national campaign, I felt a sense of unease because the London effect seems to be...