Left Foot Forward
Knife-edge election is uncharted territory
Every leadership election since voting was extended beyond MPs has turned into something of a procession. With the the excpetion of 2007 when Gordon Brown who took an uncontested coronation. Labour has never had such closely contested leadership election.
Cruddas: We need to be electing the people who can rebuild Labour
Our guest writer is Jon Cruddas, Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham. Here he outlines his reasons for supporting Diana Holland as Labour Party Treasurer.
Diane Abbott: The state isn’t the answer to everything
Diane Abbott set out her own vision of civic society in the thoughtful constraints of the type of community in which she lives in a speech titled The "Big Society" is a ‘big con’ at Policy Exchange this morning.
Caroline Lucas: Ed and David should support more options for AV referendum
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has called on Labour leadership frontrunners David and Ed Miliband to support her amendment to the AV referendum bill on Monday to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems.
Glass half-full for Tony as half-price books fail to fly off the shelves
On the day that Tony Blair's memoirs were released, it all seems a bit quiet. There were no queues; the bookshelves still full of hardbacks with “half price” stickers placed on the front.
Coalition cuts endanger the poorest children on UK roads
Recent announcements of the coalition government’s cuts are to dramatically worsen the plight of Britain’s poorest and most underprivileged children, new research reveals.