Since 2014, a new political institution has been added to the compound landscape of subnational governance in England: directly elected Combined Authority (CA) ...
The Labour Party has recently been advised to showcase its patriotism and let the electorate know it is proud to be British. This is never bad advice for a main...
An underappreciated aspect of Eric Hobsbawm’s political thought is the case for a more pluralistic, dynamic and intellectually inquiring Labour party. This is ...
The context of the review
The Labour Together review of the 2019 election was published on 19 June 2020, almost exactly six months after the party suffered ...
Antisemitism and the Labour party has rarely been out of the UK’s political headlines in the UK since 2016. Yet as we argue in our new article in the Political...
If a renewed respect for expertise is one result of post-Covid 19 politics then the Labour party, under Keir Starmer, could be in a better position to capitali...
The scale of Keir Starmer’s victory in the Labour leadership election suggests a significant shift in opinion has taken place among the party’s grassroots memb...
Since 2017 the Labour party has proposed mandatory sectoral collective bargaining (SCB) as a comprehensive strategy to rebuild the trade union voice across the...
In the aftermath of Labour’s general election defeat, a new conventional wisdom has rapidly taken hold: Labour, increasingly middle class and out of touch, has...
Of all the
candidates vying for the party leadership, Lisa Nandy appears to have put the
most thought into why Labour was so badly beaten in the general electi...
With the intervention of the Board of Deputies of British Jews into the Labour party's leadership election, antisemitism has become one of the campaign’s defin...
What do the different wings of the Labour Party actually disagree about? Sometimes it seems like almost everything, in spite of the warm words about party unit...