Changes at Left Foot Forward

Left Foot Forward

After nearly two years setting up and editing Left Foot Forward, I have decided to pass on the leadership of the blog to what Ed Miliband might call a “new generation”.

Shamik Das, our excellent assistant editor becomes Acting Editor, and Daniel Elton, a trained fundraiser who has been working with Left Foot Forward on the separate Latimer Project, will take over as Managing Director with responsibility for business development. Our regular writers Nicola Smith and Marcus Roberts will become contributing editors on social policy and foreign policy respectively. They join a new editorial board which will be expanded in the coming weeks.

In January, I start as Associate Director for Strategic Development at the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). I’ll be working with new Director Nick Pearce and ippr’s terrific team of researchers (many of whom will be familiar as LFF contributors) to help rebuild the policy platform for British progressives as well as developing the Institute’s international relationships, particularly in the US where I used to work. I’ll continue to write – primarily on economic policy – for Left Foot Forward.

Setting up and editing Left Foot Forward over the past 18 months has been an enormously rewarding challenge and I’m thrilled that we now have a regular monthly audience of over 50,000 and have been voted the No.1 left-wing blog. I’ve no doubt that the new team will take the blog from strength to strength.

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44 Responses to “Changes at Left Foot Forward”

  1. Mr. Sensible

    BTW Will, what is the ‘Movement Politics’ catagory? Is it a new one, or just one I have missed?

  2. Hazico_Jo

    RT @Markfergusonuk: Exciting times for the Labour/Left blogosphere, and best of luck to @wdjstraw with new endeavours http://bit.ly/i8f1gV

  3. Clifford Singer

    Calm down janie_s: If you want to know who funds LFF all you have to do is click on the “Thanks” button at the top of this page. I wish some of the right’s organisations provided the same information.

  4. Rick Muir

    RT @Markfergusonuk: Exciting times for the Labour/Left blogosphere, and best of luck to @wdjstraw with new endeavours http://bit.ly/i8f1gV

  5. Martin Tillier

    RT @leftfootfwd: Changes at Left Foot Forward http://bit.ly/elPM3O

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