And in the minds of the modern Labour Party, that would be unconscionable. Less than a fifth of workers earn their living in the public sector, yet it remains, for the Left in general, the target ...

Progressives, in pursuit of their goals, often meet a persistent, impenetrable force: other progressives.

Starmer should take the prospect of a split on the left just as seriously as he does the challenge from the right.

125 YEARS AGO on February 27 1900, a meeting took place at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon St to form the Labour Representation Committee (LRC). The building still stands although today it is a modern ...

The singer, songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg thinks there’s a crisis of accountability in politics (23:51). To fix it, he says we need to reform the House of Lords (27:55) and redefine ...

Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party snatched a critical parliamentary seat from the governing Labour Party. By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle Mark Landler reported from Runcorn, England ...

All this is coming from Britain’s center-left Labour Party, which long favored openness toward migrants. That reflected Labour’s modern base of urban progressive voters.