Labour’s nightmare summer?

Yesterday’s polls are the stuff of nightmares for Labour, with the party registering its worst rating since 2009 when an unpopular Brown-led Labour government was in office. Now, it’s well known that party leadership elections never appeal to voters, which goes some...

The End of Parliamentary Socialism?

For any Labour Kremlinologists, recent weeks have been a fantastic spectacle with factional splits becoming more marked than at any point since, arguably, the 1982 deputy leadership contest. In that instance Tony Benn took on Denis Healey for what has come to be known...

Spinners and Losers: Assessing the Labour Reshuffle

Even before Christmas it was widely reported that Jeremy Corbyn was planning a ‘revenge reshuffle’. Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn seemed the most likely target given his support for action against IS in Syria, but Chief Whip Rosie Winterton and her deputies Alan...