Leaked letter: Acting Deputy Commissioner John Yates writes to the Director...
Letter from acting deputy commissioner John Yates sent to the director of public prosecution Keir Starmer on Friday 14 January 2011. RE: ALLEGATIONS OF PHONE HACKING I am grateful for the opportunity...
View ArticleNew letter from the director of public prosecutions discredits Met police...
by Tom Watson Parliament is peeling away at the phone hacking scandal and getting nearer to the facts. The comprehensive analysis submitted by the director of public prosecutions, published for the...
View ArticleJoint statement by John Yates and Keir Starmer on phone hacking
Joint statement by MPS Acting Deputy Commissioner John Yates and the Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC: There has been a significant amount of interest in recent weeks among the media...
View ArticleLabour’s general election campaign will be dominated by the battle to succeed...
by Atul Hatwal The shock of the election announcement is already subsiding. The grim reality is clear. A common expectation across the PLP is that Labour will lose 70 to 80 seats, reducing Labour’s...
View ArticleStarmer is right: Only Labour can stop a blank cheque Brexit
by David Ward At times it felt like we’d completely bypassed the election and gone straight into the leadership contest. Jenny Chapman introduced Keir Starmer as “clear, articulate, and strong” and one...
View ArticleWhen David Evans was North West party director, trade unions were at the...
by John Mann I was appointed by the unions in 1995 to co-ordinate the union links with the Labour Party and act as national union organiser for the 1997 General Election. Soon after starting David...
View ArticleHas Ed Miliband’s moment arrived?
by Jonathan Todd “In 2008-09,” Gordon Brown recently told New Statesman, “we tried to persuade people that it made sense to run a deficit and it was not a problem in the long term if debt rose in the...
View ArticleCovid has put the NHS front and centre. But Labour needs to beware, 2019...
by David Talbot On the morning after consigning the Labour Party to a fourth and devastating general election defeat, the Prime Minister addressed the nation from the steps of Downing Street. In the...
View ArticleIf Starmer wants to end Labour’s infighting, then ban Momentum and Progress
by Kevin Meagher There is something fratricidal about the Labour party. Its innate. Division comes naturally, with tribes of left and right, eyeing each other suspiciously. If they did not have to work...
View ArticleLabour’s congenital fatalism means it’s in danger of learning the wrong...
by Atul Hatwal There’s much that’s salient in the Labour Together report. The problems of Jeremy Corbyn on the doorstep, an economic prospectus that few believed, a chaotic campaign and, of course,...
View ArticleGet ready for the winter of discontent, 2020/21
by Jonathan Todd We have reached the mid-point of the longest year. Football’s back, pubs and shops are open, the sun shines. The government are eager for consumers to spend the economy back to health....
View ArticleLabour needs a clear, distinctive, and credible economic message
by Jonathan Todd More people than not think that Keir Starmer looks like a prime minister in waiting (38% versus 34% in a YouGov poll conducted in early July), while more than twice as many think...
View ArticleAfter Starmer’s first 100 days came Labour’s tipping-point week
by Rob Marchant At the 100-day point in mid-July, there was much favourable chatter about the new leader. Good poll ratings, clear change of position on anti-Semitism, control of the NEC. The...
View ArticleLabour centrists can be optimistic. The hard left is going to turn Keir...
by Atul Hatwal Keir Starmer is not a Blairite. His closest political ally is Ed Miliband and like the younger Miliband, his politics are those of the soft left. But if the hard left continue to oppose...
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“Incompetence” is the most dangerous word in politics. Boris beware
by David Talbot In the Autumn of 2007, a resurgent Labour Party, galvanised by Gordon Brown’s elevation to Number Ten, met in Bournemouth buoyant at the prospect of an early general election. Under the...
View ArticleLabour needs to talk about Brexit
by Robert Williams There is an ongoing debate in the Labour Party about whether Sir Keir Starmer should talk about Brexit. There have been so many other sticks with which to beat the government with,...
View ArticleWhat story has Starmer come to tell Britain?
by Jonathan Todd At a recent meeting of the PLP, Kevin Brennan congratulated Keir Starmer on, “getting us from the carousel at Katmandu airport to base camp at Everest, in good shape for the long climb...
View ArticleLabour must beware the Tories’‘Miliband minority’ attack line – it worked...
By David Talbot The country has become rather used to going to the polls. Three times in four years, no less. The hattrick of recent elections ushered in a Conservative majority for the first time in...
View ArticleNo Deal Brexit could blow Starmer’s strategy
by Dan Cooke Brexit is back. After months when the government’s shambolic response to Covid has monopolized political debate, the imminent expiration of the Brexit transition period on 31 December has...
View ArticleCorbyn’s toxic legacy lingers on in Unite
by David Talbot The seeds of Unite the Union’s recent act of self-immolation were sown in early 2018. In an article for the New Statesman, Len McCluskey opined that Labour MPs who were hostile to...
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