Comment Local elections 2024: ‘Key council tests for Labour in each region of England’ Last year’s local elections saw plenty of Labour celebrations in areas like Medway, Swindon, Plymouth and Stoke-on-Trent as… Jonathan Carr-West 28th April, 2024, 8:00 am
Comment ‘History and poll leads suggest Labour can be bolder, even if it costs some votes’ Should Labour members get ready to party like it’s 1997? The consistent message of opinion polls certainly suggests… Dr Mark Garnett 26th April, 2024, 8:00 am
Comment Sarwar: ‘Humza Yousaf’s leadership is in tailspin. The time for change has come’ This week will go down as one of the most significant in recent Scottish political history. Fresh from… Anas Sarwar 25th April, 2024, 7:56 pm
Comment ‘Frank’s poverty mission lives on at his charity – but he’d scrap two-child cap’ Frank Field has long been a hero of mine, and he will remain so for the rest of… Andrew Forsey 24th April, 2024, 1:02 pm
Comment ‘I disagreed with Frank Field, but he was no Tory and I loved him all the same’ This piece was originally published on Philip Collins’ Substack and can be found here. I think of Frank… Philip Collins 24th April, 2024, 10:28 am
Columnist ‘National flags and identity can be inclusive – we’re right to embrace them’ From the very beginning, Keir Starmer’s Labour has been proudly patriotic. The 2022 Labour Party conference opened with… Alice Perry 23rd April, 2024, 10:10 am
Comment ‘Sunak’s claim of a ‘sick note culture’ is immoral and deeply flawed’ The Prime Minister’s speech on welfare reform last Friday was not only high on rhetoric and low on… Debbie Abrahams 22nd April, 2024, 9:58 am
Analysis Hartlepool elections: Inside Labour’s bid to take back control in ‘red wall’ town Hartlepool almost spelt the end of Keir Starmer’s leadership before it really began, as a recent biography revealed.… Daniel Green 21st April, 2024, 8:30 am
Comment ‘Labour should grasp the chance to secure EU visa deal for young workers’ For some months now Tory ministers have been trying to do individual deals for youth mobility visa schemes… Stella Creasy 19th April, 2024, 1:19 pm
Comment ‘How Labour could win a Milton Keynes majority for the first time in decades’ Rishi Sunak may have chickened out of calling an election this May, but we still have the opportunity… Shanika Mahendran 19th April, 2024, 9:48 am