Who would want to be a police commissioner?
By Olly Martins
The Tory-led government’s Police and Crime Commissioner initiative seems almost designed to fail, so inauspicious will be the circumstances surrounding its introduction. The new Police and Crime Commissioners will hardly have sat down at their desks before they will be confronting unpalatable choices, as they wrestle with the Tories’ 20% budget cuts. Police numbers are already falling and will quite possibly fall further as the cuts continue to bite. The Prime Minister tried to convince us that you can make [...]
News
- March 13, 201214
Andy Burnham – the runaway winner of our MP of the month contest
Not content with placing him firmly at the top of the shadow cabinet rankings (for the second month in a row) you’ve also awarded shadow health secretary Andy Burnham the LabourList MP of the month award for February. Burnham has been relentless...
- March 12, 201217
Shadow Cabinet rankings – February 2012
By Mark Ferguson
Which shadow cabinet members are most popular with LabourList readers? This month there’s little change at the top, with Andy Burnham’s steadfast defence of the NHS keeping him at the top of the shadow cabinet rankings for a second successive...
- March 11, 20128
Bradford West candidate selected
After a quick fire selection process, Labour’s candidate for the Bradford West by-election was selected this evening by local members from a shortlist of seven. The candidate for the by-election will be Imran Hussain – congratulations to them,...
- Bradford West shortlist
- Labour’s New “Executive Board” and new roles for senior staffers
- State of the Party survey: Steady Eddy
Comment
- March 13, 201240
Reforms will greatly improve the Monarchy – but they won’t be enough
By Tom King
After last year’s media circus surrounding the Royal Wedding, the airwaves are already filled with palace propaganda ahead of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, but as a member of a democratic socialist party I see no reason to celebrate.I have to despair,...
- March 13, 20120
Time to salvage something from the Health Bill’s mess
By Glenys Thornton
Today is day seven of the Lords’ Report stage of the deeply unloved Health and Social Care Bill, with many thousands of people, not least doctors and nurses, still expressing fear and anxiety about its meaning and effect. One of the amendments we will...
- March 13, 20123
Your local library – and local community – needs you
By Dave Prentis
Today I join hundreds of campaigners from across the country to warn the government that support for libraries is long overdue. UNISON is a founding member of Speak up for Libraries alongside the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI), Voices...
- Growth hasn’t flatlined because of the UK’s unfair dismissal regime
- Tomorrow, Britain will be set back 13 years
- Is the pro-nuclear alliance disintegrating?
21st Century Party
- March 11, 20127
Capturing the mood
By Mike Buckley
At times in its history the Labour Party has captured the mood and appeared to offer the route to change – an Obama 2008 style hope for a better future. If capable and passionate people aren’t...
- March 11, 201215
Why people join the Labour Party
By Mark Rowney
I have joined the party twice. The first time I joined, I received a couple of things in the post and that was it. So I didn’t bother renewing my membership. When I rejoined in 2008, it was because...
- March 10, 20120
Labour needs a champion for members
By Ellie Southwood
The creation of a Members and Supporters Directorate is a chance to radically change the way the Labour Party is structured and how it treats those who volunteer their time, energy and money to support...
- Why YOU need to be a fundraiser
- Rewriting the rulebook
- Labour online comms: needing to do more than wringing the last little drop of activity from our members
Video
- March 13, 20123
Diane Abbott: GPs are still against the health bill
- March 13, 20120
Ed Miliband interviewed by young people
- March 13, 20120
Reeves confirms Labour support for “Mansion Tax”
- Labour’s pre-budget press conference
- Bolton is not near Sunderland
- David Miliband: Putin was “cold and motionless”
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