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The risk with a Budget chock full of “everyday fixes” is the accusation it lacks imagination. Britain has huge intractable problems and the PM and his Chancellor are… giving us £100 for another major energy crisis? You see a version of this charge under every Instagram video by Andy Burnham.
Last month, for the first time in years, upReach held a fringe meeting at a Party Conference. We were pleased to do so in partnership with Progress. We did this because there is real urgency to removing a major barrier to career success for young people from working class and
My first Labour party conference was back in the early 1990s when as a campaigner for penal reform I was part of a group of free-thinking radicals and lawyers (including a young barrister called Keir Starmer). Our efforts to convince the party that community sentencing was a more effective response
The backlash against artificial intelligence is gathering force. Across America this summer, plans for giant data centres are running into cross-country, cross-party opposition from a coalition that now stretches from Bernie Sanders to Republican governors. Communities worry about power, water, jobs and what they see as yet another bargain where
Andy Burnham is the fifth occupant of Downing Street in ten years to be handed the keys by his party, rather than by the voters. The keys come with the red boxes, the flat above the shop, the podium with the crest on it. Three weeks in, the ambition is
Earlier this week, I took part in Scottish Labour’s first hustings of this leadership election. The room brought together members, CLP officers, trade unionists, parliamentarians, and affiliate members all of whom are the very lifeblood of our party. It is clear to me that the only way back for Scottish
Scottish Labour must prove it is ready to win and ready to govern There is no shortcut back to trust and we will not recover because voters decide it is our turn, or because the SNP have run out of road. Angry voters do not automatically become our support. Disappointment
In July I had the wonderful opportunity of attending Progress’ Political Weekend in Birmingham. Amidst a resounding political moment, it was wonderful to be among progressive friends, building depth and community in our small corner of the Labour Party. Political Weekend came at exactly the right instance to build that
Keir Starmer took Labour from its worst defeat in over seventy years to its second best election victory. This achievement alone should be enough to secure his legacy in Labour folklore. But there is more. Labour was not just electorally broken by 2019 – it was morally, institutionally and financially
