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The government must not allow its commitment to fiscal probity to become rigid dogma
(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Labour is not, and has never been, a socialist party. It is a social democratic party whose mission is to save...
Diane Abbott should be allowed to stand as a Labour MP at this election. It is a relief that she has belatedly had the Labour whip returned to her...
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner, but I never doubted that Sadiq Khan would win re-election as the city’s mayor – even when rumours of a...
Ministerial authority entrenched by the current administration gives Labour an opportunity
It doesn’t matter how loyal a candidate is. Once elected, all MPs (to a greater or lesser extent) conclude they have won their seat because of their...
Time for a change is the most potent slogan in politics. It can, as Jim Callaghan observed in 1979, be irresistible: “There are times, perhaps once...
The Labour party’s relentless pursuit of Tory switchers is in danger of backfiring badly. Keir Starmer’s praise of Margaret Thatcher in the Sunday...