This book is the third in an impressive series on political leadership in Britain’s mainstream parties which we owe to...
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Ramsay MacDonald Articles
British Labour and Conservative Leaders
At the last five general elections the British public has voted in favour of a prime minister who offers centrism,...
‘We have to impress the country’
Labour’s defeat at the 2015 election was severe. There is no getting around that. Before the election many media...
Summer of ‘94
The birth of New Labour was an electrifying ride into the future, recalls Paul Richards Before Iraq, before the...
The legacy of 1931
Eighty-five years ago this month, on 30 May 1929, the Labour party became the largest single party at a general...
Remembering Margaret Bondfield
Following International Women's Day, there is no better time to remember Labour’s Margaret Bondfield, the first female...
Supplanting the Liberals
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the close of the Edwardian era, when the Great War broke out in 1914; the...
Britain’s First Labour Government
If it is at all, the first Labour government is usually remembered as a footnote in history. Unlike its second period...
Events, Dear Boy, Events
Events, dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain from Woolf to Campbell is a very enjoyable book. Edited by Ruth...
Character, not class
Recent calls for more ‘working-class MPs’ are age-old code for ‘more leftwing trade unionists in parliament’ It is...
A family affair
New Labour and blue Labour have much to learn from each other, argues James Purnell I remember sitting with the late...
Two types of Labour PM
Was Tony Blair the best prime minister we ever had, or just in the top one? Before the man who left office five years...