Monday News Review
The Leadership Race “Ed Balls has hailed himself as a “winner” as he set out why he is the best man to replace Gordon Brown as Labour leader. The shadow education secretary said he had successfully...
View Article90% turnout, but Diane Abbott fails to vote in PLP select committee elections
Labour Uncut has seen an unpublished list of MPs who failed to vote in yesterday’s select committee elections. There were 25 non-voters, one of whom was leadership candidate Diane Abbott. Turnout in...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing the leadership
This morning we published the latest in our series of crowdsourced interviews with the Labour leadership candidates. This time it was David Miliband’s turn to be interviewed. You can read the David...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing the leadership
This morning we published the latest in our series of crowdsourced interviews with the Labour leadership candidates. This time it was Ed Miliband’s turn to face your questions. You can read the Ed...
View ArticleIt’s time the leadership also-rans came clean about their second preferences,...
It is polite to pretend that there are five candidates for the Labour leadership. But it is not true. The next leader of the Labour party will be David or Ed Miliband. Everybody knows that. There is an...
View ArticleTuesday News Review
The David & Ed show The next Labour leader is unlikely to be an Abbott, Balls or Burnham. Gordon Brown’s successor will be a Miliband. But I’m more interested in whether he will be Mr Sun or Mr...
View ArticleDiane Abbott’s desert island discs
A woman of conviction, Diane Abbott presented us with the same list she gave to our namesake in 2008. Any flirtations with post ’08 tunes have been put to the back of her mind. She has stayed true to...
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Labour leadership top trumps
Uncut has commissioned Dave Howells to produce that crucial leadership contest accessory: the top trumps. Like real top trumps, it won’t keep you amused for very long unless you are a small child. But...
View ArticleLet’s leave the lapel badges in the 1980s and focus on what matters
by Kevin Meagher Labour’s history is pockmarked with prolonged periods of opposition following ejection from office; none more so than during those 18 wasted years in the 80s and 90s. The explanation...
View ArticleThe Olympics: ten times the disaster of the Dome
by Kevin Meagher I don’t often find myself in agreement with Diane Abbott, but I have cut out her piece from the Independent about the olympic games and pinned it above my desk, so I can read it over...
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