Conference in Liverpool was a success for moderates —The honest truth is that I had not been looking forward to Labour...
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Tom Watson Articles
The director’s diary
Progress director Richard Angell shares his analysis of the latest developments at Labour party conference 2016 Friday...
Asset-stripping Labour
Momentum is a party waiting to leave a party —The results of the National Executive Committee elections were...
Chaos under Corbyn
A year in decline under hard-left control September 12 – Jeremy Corbyn wins 59 per cent of the vote in the ballot to...
We need to open our ears
You may not know it, and it often does not feel like it, but in at least one political sphere we are living through...
Haters gonna hate
It has been a fun few weeks for the Labour party, hasn’t it? Let’s briefly recap. Before Christmas this column...
Truth or dare
Despairing, mutinous, disgusted, shell-shocked, aghast, angry. The adjectives journalists use to describe the mood of...
The price of a seat in parliament
Mandatory reselection could reduce Labour MPs to the status of delegates The idea of mandatory reselection of Labour...
Insider out
Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village As we are in a new world, perhaps we should rename this column....
Lucky Jim
Of all the members of the shadow cabinet, Jim Murphy may be emerging as one of the most interesting. Regarded,...
NEC report May 2012
The full National Executive Committee met on 29 May. It was a long meeting (four hours) with a lot of serious...
NEC Report – January 2012
Constituency representative Luke Akehurst reports on the full National Executive Committee meeting of 24 January. The...