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Progress political weekend Articles

We win when we seek the common ground

Full text of the opening speech of Progress political weekend 2017, given by Progress chair Alison McGovern MP: Hello everyone and welcome to Progress political weekend 2017. Before I start I just want to thank Richard, Matthew, Laura, Conor, Jerome and the whole team...
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Clause One principles

Time to convince fellow members of Labour’s founding purpose The Labour party was founded as the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 by Keir Hardie and others to secure parliamentary representation of labour, because he and the founding trade unions had concluded...
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‘There’s nothing wrong that a decent Labour government couldn’t fix’

The apocryphal Chinese curse ‘may you live in interesting times’ came to mind several times during the Progress political weekend. These are certainly ‘interesting times’ for Labour members, and the weekend at the National Union of Teachers’ Stoke Rochford Hall –...
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Learning from losing 

Let me begin by thanking Ben for his presentation. This research is vital to making sure we learn the right lessons from our 2015 defeat, and the Labour party should have had the courage to publish it. Let me also thank Progress for inviting me to speak today. As...
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