Corbyn sounding rattled over extremist links
Given his appeal as a straight talker his explanations are shifty.
Blair can’t snap Labour out of Corbynmania
The burden of fixing this mess falls to those who set it in motion. It will be interventions by Miliband and Brown, should they come, which could be decisive.
Labour needs to embrace school choice
Burnham’s reactionary stance is indicative of a broader problem: a would-be leader who can’t move on from battles lost, but has nothing new to add.
Andy Burnham raids UKIP’s ‘drivel’ manifesto for policy ideas
The Labour leadership candidate’s manifesto is a weird mix of the very vague and the very specific. And one idea looks familiar…
Farron has some Lords troubles of his own
The Lib Dems’ big beasts outnumber their smaller creatures.
Cruddas’ prescription for Labour is pure Osbornomics
Labour’s independent election review finds an electorate which wants an activist government that lives within its means. Where have we heard that before?
The Corbynites’ message to centrist Labour members: you are a virus, and must be purged
The comments accompanying the CWU’s endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn are illuminating and alarming.
Where Farron will concentrate his attacks on the Conservatives
Benefits, housing, environmentalism, immigration, civil liberties and, of course, Europe.
The Fabians are among the first on the Left to show a glimmer of understanding why Labour lost
They might get it in part, but does the wider Labour Party?
A National Education Service is a terrible idea
Corbyn’s latest wheeze cites an old formula: grab power to the centre; restrict producer variety and user choice; and waste lots of money.
Corbyn explains that Labour suffered a shock defeat because it was too right wing…in 1992
Apparently Neil Kinnock should have been talking about nuclear disarmament instead.
The welfare revolt was just a taste of Labour splits to come
Inside the party or out, the union barons’ tame MPs will be a plague on any leader who attempts to move the party towards the centre.
He was the future once – Blair’s problem is he will always be a face from the past
Even if his proposals for his party are correct, they won’t listen to him.
Miliband’s legacy: Twenty-one of the welfare rebels were new MPs – and seventeen of those have links to Unite
Recently it seemed that Labour’s loony left might one day die out. Now they have a new generation.
Corbyn poaches grassroots support in the seats of 14 MPs who support Kendall, Burnham and Cooper
The ideological gap between Labour members and MPs is growing wider and wider.