News & Insight

27 July 2015

What is Labour's place in a new political landscape? This is the question the party must seek to answer as it comes to terms with its shocking electoral defeat. Labour’s current challenge is unique – both in terms of its history,...

20 July 2015

The hard truth is that we lost the 2015 election because we lost touch with our people. We let the Tories define the ground on the economy in the long, leader-less summer of 2010 and we never won it back....

20 July 2015

The Labour party exists to win elections to improve lives and make the world a better place. But if the shock of our crushing election defeat is beginning to fade, the scale of the challenge facing us is only just...

20 July 2015

Labour lost badly in May and there is no doubt that the task of winning power in 2020 is daunting. We will need to present the British people with a compelling offer that responds to the economic and social realities...

20 July 2015

It’s a number of months since we lost the election in May but still, for many of us, the pain of losing is unabated. With five long years stretching ahead of us, watching the Tories dismantling the welfare state, demoralising...

20 July 2015

Is this as bad as it gets? In 2010, when we scraped just 29 per cent of the vote, Labour’s worst performance for almost a century, we told ourselves it was. It couldn’t get any worse. But five years later,...