Tony Lloyd Articles

Congratulations to Dave Watts, the new chair of the parliamentary Labour party, elected by 138 votes to 88 in a race against leftwinger John Cryer. Cryer, a Morgan-driving parliamentary retread, achieved an impressive vote for a candidate associated with the...

The Labour party has become an effective opposition. As someone who desperately wants to see our party back in office, that’s a terrifying prospect . Every step we take towards being an effective opposition runs the risk of taking us further away from being a...

The full national executive committee met on 20th March. I had been expecting fireworks on three issues: Ed Balls’ report on economic policy, the report on restructuring at HQ (as this issue had been reported in very controversial terms in the Guardian), and the...