‘Labour's Future’ campaign news

Priorities in the Labour Party

The Labour Party is consulting on its manifesto for the General Election this year. You can submit policy ideas to http://www.labourspace.com/thechoice. Please copy any submissions to the LRC at: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). [continue...]

New Labour’s rootless pretenders

John McDonnell MP, LRC Chair, writes for the Guardian Comment is Free on the positioning of ‘New Labour’s rootless pretenders’. The late David Taylor was a principled Labour MP, rooted in his community. Balls, Purnell et al have lost touch with this tradition - and Labour has suffered for it. [continue...]

People want changed policies and changed politics, not leadership coups

A statement by two former Labour cabinet ministers circulated today, calling for a secret ballot on Gordon Brown’s leadership. [continue...]

Queen’s Speech ‘hardly inspirational’

The Government has today set out in the Queen’s Speech its legislative agenda for the period up until the General Election. [continue...]

LRC Conference: Building the Resistance - Sat 14 Nov

The LRC’s national conference and AGM ‘Building the Resistance’ was held at the Institute of Education, Bedford Way, London on Saturday 14th November.  [continue...]

Five steps to the return of Labour - Jeremy Corbyn

The latest crop of opinion polls make grim reading for Labour. Cameron’s Tories are now getting consistently over 40 per cent. The Conservative leaders’s message of tough cuts is clearly resonating well with the coalition of meanness that propelled Thatcher to office 30 years ago. [continue...]

‘Shocking result for Labour’ in unnecessary by-election

Labour has been defeated in the Norwich North by-election caused by the barring of former Labour MP Ian Gibson from standing at the next election. [continue...]

John McDonnell on ‘Building Britain’s Future’

Gordon Brown announced his policy programme until the General Election under the ‘Building Britain’s Future’ this week. [continue...]

Government Iraq Enquiry Process in Shambles

The Government’s majority was cut as Labour MPs rebelled against Brown’s plans for a secret inquiry on Iraq, to which the Prime Minister appoints the inquiry team, and those giving evidence are not doing so under oath. [continue...]

McDonnell welcomes union’s support for Labour ‘change campaign’

In his address to Unison conference, Dave Prentis (General Secretary) has today called for his union to suspend all Constituency Development Plans only to work with MPs and to support candidates who back the union’s policies to fight for a manifesto that excludes privatisation. [continue...]

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