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Tessa Jowell Articles

It takes guts to stand

The first thing to say about Labour's leadership election is that it takes a lot of guts to stand. You put yourself on the frontline and open yourself up to intense public scrutiny of everything you have done and everything you believe; and you are expected to present...

Changing the party to change the result in 5 years’ time

This week the Progress strategy board has endorsed an all-women team to meet Labour's electoral challenges to come. Elected by the membership of Progress – Labour's new mainstream, the board members decided to support Liz Kendall for Labour leader and Tessa Jowell for...

London’s next mayor should be a democratic trailblazer

Both of the frontrunners to succeed Boris Johnson have pledged a more open and inclusive politics. Tessa Jowell, who has been a long and lonely advocate for throwing open Labour’s selection processes through the use of primaries, says she wants her party to leave...

Runners and riders

Lewis Baston profiles the candidates in Labour's London mayor candidate selection Diane Abbott has been member of parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman ever elected to parliament. Before being elected she...
Power surge

Power surge

It could be the week that marked the beginning of the end for ‘Labour’s institutional statism’ as Ben Lucas of the RSA...

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