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The Greens stood aside – now back me in Brighton to help defeat regressive...
I am standing in Brighton Kemptown, a seat on the south coast that we lost by just 690 votes in 2015. We bucked the trend and halved the Tory majority but it was not enough to get us a Labour MP....
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Labour members pick former Green candidate to fight Gloucester
Labour activists in the target seat of Gloucester have picked a fair finance campaigner and former Green Party activist as their candidate after she won backing from the TSSA and left-wing activist...
View ArticleWant to save the planet? Vote Labour, not Green or Lib Dem
If you want to save the planet this election, vote Labour. If you want to create a fairer and more equal society, vote Labour. This is shaping up to be a climate election. Last week, polling found that...
View ArticleRemain Labour MPs targeted by pro-Remain pact
The Liberal Democrats, Greens and Plaid Cymru have established a ‘Remain pact’ allegedly to boost the number of pro-Remain MPs – but 77% of Labour-held seats on their list are already represented by...
View Article“Rewiring how the thing works”: Labour’s Fran Boait in Gloucester
“I joined Labour after Corbyn became leader and McDonnell became Chancellor, when I could see that they were serious about system change and not just tinkering,” Fran Boait explains to me over a cup of...
View ArticleLeadership candidate Clive Lewis invites Greens to work on cross-party project
Clive Lewis has extended an invitation to Green Party parliamentarians to work on a green new deal transformation project, should he be elected as Labour leader. The leadership candidate has initiated...
View ArticleThe Greens eye up Bristol West as they become the largest party on the council
The Green Party has become the largest party on Bristol City Council, following a narrow by-election victory. Green candidate Patrick McAllister was elected to represent Hotwells and Harbourside ward,...
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Local elections in Wirral: What voters think in a key target council for Labour
Wirral in north-west England is a key battleground council in this week’s local elections, with local and national Labour politicians hopeful of taking overall control. With an all-out election, the...
View ArticleThe Greens should worry Labour, but Brighton shows how to fight back
Now that the dust has settled after the local elections and Labour groups are settling down to make good use of their hard-won political victories, it is time for reflection on the results and what...
View Article‘Why Labour was likely to dislodge the one Green MP even before Lucas quit’
Labour’s chances of winning in Brighton Pavilion – the constituency which takes its name from the eccentric, romantic-gothic former Royal residence at its heart – significantly increased yesterday, as...
View Article‘Labour must work with the Greens – or risk again splitting the progressive...
Despite a historic win in Selby, Labour couldn’t resist indulging in some characteristic self-flagellation over its ULEZ-induced defeat in Uxbridge. But amid all this, another party was busy...
View ArticleMeet Labour Brighton Pavilion candidate Tom Gray as Eddie Izzard falls short
Musician Tom Gray has been selected as Labour’s candidate for Brighton Pavilion at the next general election ahead of comedian Eddie Izzard. Gray – who won the Mercury prize with his band Gomez in 1998...
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‘Starmer leads Sunak on immigration, but the real challenge comes in power’
It is much easier to be Keir Starmer than Rishi Sunak when it comes to the campaign politics of immigration this year – an unusual statement to make when comparing Labour and Conservative leaders...
View ArticleEx-Corbyn aide Laura Parker: ‘Vote Green’ in Labour-held Bristol target seat
A former senior aide to Jeremy Corbyn, Laura Parker, has urged people to vote Green in one of the party’s handful of target seats, the Bristol Central seat held by Labour shadow cabinet minister...
View ArticleLocals signal ‘Blair-style majority’ not hung parliament, new analysis finds
Labour is on course for a “Blair-style majority” following the party’s success at the local elections last week, according to one leading pollster’s analysis of mayoral and police and crime...
View ArticleYouGov general election MRP poll: Labour projected to win 422 seats
Labour has been projected to win 422 seats at the general election in a YouGov mega-poll, while the Tories have been predicted to win 140 seats, in one of a series of major polls released on Monday....
View ArticleTactical voting website says vote Labour in Bristol Central and Sheffield Hallam
Labour is the best party to vote for tactically to ensure the Tories don’t win in two key seats where the party has been seen as vulnerable to the Greens and Liberal Democrats, the campaign group Best...
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Bristol Central: Inside Labour’s battle to counter the insurgent Green Party
Amongst all the constituency races across the country, including the dozens of safe Conservative seats which could flip for the first time, one battle has attracted the media’s interest like no other....
View Article‘Labour will face more marginals than ever in 2029. Preparation must start now’
To achieve a landslide victory four and half years after Labour’s worst election defeat since 1935 will always be deemed remarkable. Keir Starmer, and his team, have managed what many thought was...
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