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This is a little complicated but if you are a Labour Party member, who believes in the Co-operative movement and have been selected to stand for Labour at next year’s May 2018 local elections….
bear with me…
and if you also want to stand as a Lab…Read more…
Scottish Labour needs an authentic voice as its new Leader, that’s why I am supporting Richard Leonard.
Unless you have been hibernating, you will have noticed that the voters have moved on from…Read more…
Got email last night from London Region”Dear candidate,Many thanks for attending your interview last weekend. I am pleased to inform you that the assessment team have recommended that you be included on the longlist of candidates and able to seek selec…Read more…
The campaigner is urging everyone to help create a fairer society for all and reject a slide toward the past he remembers
The article Harry Leslie Smith’s new book is an essential call to arms…Read more…
Thanks to everyone for attending today. Unfortunately I cannot stay for the whole of the meeting as I have to rush back to speak at Unite’s fringe on Brexit in thirty minutes. Firstly, as the…Read more…
A great and defining speech. Finally, a proper left response to the financial crash of 2008. #IwasThereRead more…
Scottish politics may be many things, but boring it isn’t. Just when you think we are in for a settled period, the Scottish Labour Leader, Kez Dugdale, resigns.
With hindsight, it was perhaps not a…Read more…
Sarah Veale, a highly respected trade unionist has been effectively dismissed by the Minister of Women and Equalities Justine Greening from her position on the board of the Equality and Human Rights…Read more…
Reports from the EU say some of the EU 27 think that the UK has hatched a cunning plan behind the shambles currently afflicting the Government and our UK negotiating team! This helpful little guide…Read more…
All Labour Party members in Newham, East London should have received a letter last week from the Labour Party encouraging those eligible to apply to stand as a candidate.
Quite rightly “Women, Black and Minority Ethnic members, Carers, people with dis…Read more…
“The Forest Gate Festival first took place in 2000, on Osborne Road and has been going strong ever since. Usually held on the third Saturday of July, it’s a local street Festival organised by enthusiastic residents on a volunteering basis.From the start, the Festival has been about…Read more…
“The Brexit chickens are coming home to roost” a prominant person in the automotive industry told me during a discussion about the announcement by Michel Barnier that the UK would not…Read more…
This is the full text of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to UNISON’s national delegate conference on 23 June 2017
The article Jeremy Corbyn: “My thanks to everybody from UNISON for all that you…Read more…
Labour leader pledges to end public sector pay cap and invest in homes, the NHS, social care and all our services – to create a country for everyone
The article National delegate conference hails…Read more…
As the dust settles on coalition and other arrangements across Scotland’s 32 hung (or balanced if you prefer) councils, now is good time to look at how councils will operate in this…Read more…
The Labour Party still wants and expects to be in the “driving seat” of the Brexit negotiations as the next government, Keir Starmer told conference delegates today. The shadow secretary of state for…Read more…
Well that was different! From landslide victory to hung parliament breaks the received wisdom that the short election campaign can only marginally shift voting intention. I have been fighting…Read more…
The Conservative Party is ‘no friend of the North’ but instead the party of the ‘leafy shires and the lucky few’, Unite the country’s largest union is warning. Billboards carrying that message will…Read more…