There has been a welcome upsurge of interest in the challenges facing Labour in England, with the Fabian Society prominent in actively promoting the debate. More and more activists, councillors and MPs understand that Labour needs to have a focused...
The Fabian Society is carrying out a research project into Labour's discomfort in rural England and Wales.
For Labour to win a majority in a general election it must make significant gains in rural and semi-rural constituencies yet it is out...
The soap opera of Labour’s leadership election has absorbed a good deal of the party’s emotional energy and political attention for the past few months. Above all it has distracted Labour from some of the increasingly important questions about nationhood...
Regardless of where you sit in the Labour party, it is difficult to look back on the leadership contest and feel a sense of pride. No one can say that this debate has constructively healed bitter divisions. In fact, we...
The voters of the UK have taken, by a small but decisive margin, the biggest foreign and domestic policy decision of the past 40 years.
In the process it has revealed a society deeply divided: socially, economically and politically, and it...
Several years ago Giles Radice coined the phrase ‘Labour’s southern discomfort’ to describe the party’s difficult relationship with southern voters. This condition has worsened to such an extent that it could now be diagnosed as ‘Labour’s English discomfort’. Labour has...
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