Tom Watson’s Future Britain ‘party within a party’ launch document leaked within minutes of its first meeting on Monday evening – a stellar start. But it has huge gaping hole […]
Any foolish hopes the seven ‘quitter’ MPs – or the lamentable Tom Watson – might have harboured that Jeremy Corbyn or Labour members might run after them and beg them […]
The latest full meeting of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) took place earlier this week and passed off largely without contention – although the previous week’s gathering of NEC sub-committees […]
Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) sub-committees met on Tuesday – and one of the outcomes will trigger intense discussion and activity at constituency parties (CLPs) around the country. In 2017, […]
Bristol North West MP Darren Jones is a literal, self-defined Blairite. He has said that the politician he admires most in history is the former Labour PM now reviled by […]
Centrist MP Jess Phillips was reportedly a lot less than happy as Birmingham Yardely CLP (constituency Labour party) held its annual general meeting (AGM) to elect its officers for the […]
Comment Penistone and Stocksbridge MP Angela Smith last night suffered defeat in a no-confidence vote by her local CLP (constituency Labour party, by a margin of 27 votes to 20. […]
When Theresa May called her fateful ‘snap general election’ in April last year, Labour members were robbed of the opportunity to change their MP or candidate that the party’s rules […]
Liverpool Wavertree MP Luciana Berger was again involved in controversy recently when the right-wing press claimed that she was in danger from Labour members had to be accompanied by a […]
Comment Derby North MP Chris Williamson and this blog stand on opposite sides of the ‘open selection’ debate. Williamson has pressed vocally for open selection – a policy of automatically having […]