All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
The Forde report: what has changed?
Keir Starmer has claimed that the debilitating factionalism revealed in the 138-page inquiry is over — if so, that is only because the worst offenders are now in full control of Labour. We must break the cycle, writes ANDREW MURRAY
DEEPLY INSIGHTFUL: Martin Forde QC (inset)
[Forde photo UCL Laws/flickr/CC]
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
ONE cannot read the Forde Report into the internal life of the Labour Party during the Jeremy Corbyn years without a deepening sense of rage.
That is not because Martin Forde QC has done a bad job — far from it. His report is judicious, largely fair, and in many respects, deeply insightful.
He and his team were charged with reviewing the contents of the “leaked report” — an internal Labour document prepared under then general secretary Jennie Formby and originally intended as part of the party’s submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission investigation into Labour’s handling of complaints of anti-semitism.
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