Novara Live: John McDonnell on the #LabourLeaks and COVID-19
An exclusive interview with former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on COVID-19, the #LabourLeaks, and the future of the left under Keir Starmer.
Tag: Labour Party
Report: Labour Official Who Undermined Party and Mocked Staff Was in Running for General Secretary Under Starmer
Aaron Bastani
Exclusive: Emilie Oldknow, a former senior official at Labour HQ and a union executive, who plotted to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and called colleagues 'pube head' and 'smelly cow', was in the running for Labour's top job. Aaron Bastani reports.
Opinion: We Are Angry Too. But Now Is Not the Time to Quit the Labour Party, We Must Stay and Defend It
Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett
It is difficult to do justice to the anger we feel at the revelations exposed by the leaked Labour report, write MPs Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett. But it is precisely because we are so aggrieved that we - and you - must stay to see this through.
Novara Live: Sabotage From Above
The #LabourLeaks show how top-level staff sabotaged the Labour’s election chances and drove a culture of racism and bullying. We break down the key revelations on tonight’s #TyskySour
Opinion: The Labour Party’s Culture War Over Racism Has Pitted Marginalised Communities Against One Another
Ash Sarkar
The Labour party's selective objection to racism for factional purposes put Jewish members in the firing line of an internecine battle, pitted communities against one another, and threw black and Muslim members to the wolves, writes Ash Sarkar.
Opinion: ‘I feel both furious and vindicated’: the Leaked Report Explains Why Labour Didn’t Help Me After Grenfell
Emma Dent Coad
Former MP for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, is described as a 'grade 1 tool' in the leaked Labour report. If senior Labour party figures hadn't held her in such contempt, she writes, perhaps they would have supported her campaign in 2017 and sent additional caseworkers in the aftermath of the Grenfell fire.
Report: ‘It’s going to be a long night’ – How Members of Labour’s Senior Management Team Campaigned to Lose
Aaron Bastani
A leaked report, seen by Novara Media, reveals the extent to which senior Labour figures sought to undermine their own party’s chances in the 2017 general election.
Novara Live: Counting the Cost of COVID-19
Do official statistics show the true death count and economic cost of COVID-19? Plus Rebecca Long-Bailey’s communications boss Matt Zarb-Cousin joins Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani to discuss how the left lost the Labour leadership race.
Novara Live: Novara REACTS to the Labour Leadership Election Results
What do the results of the Labour Leadership contest tell us about the campaigns? In what direction will the victor take the party? Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani react to the news of who will succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Opposition.
Opinion: Labour Can Only Win by Building on the Corbyn Era, Not Destroying It
Aaron Bastani
Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership twice, despite a war waged against him from within the party and by the media. He won for a reason, writes Aaron Bastani; if the next Labour leader wants to become prime minister they must acknowledge this, and build on his legacy, not destroy it.
Explainers: Keir Starmer: Not the Safe Choice for Labour?
David Wearing argues that with only a few years left to prevent climate breakdown, Labour’s new leader has to both win the next general election, and then push through a major transformation of our economic model in a single parliament. So can Labour afford to go back to the politics of the centre left, which […]
Opinion: A Four-Day Week Is Possible
Aidan Harper
Abandoning demands for shorter working hours risks discarding a highly popular policy with the capacity to transform our society for the betterment of all, argues Aidan Harper.
Opinion: ‘Progressive Patriotism’ Is Not the Way to Repair Labour’s Image
Ruth Kinna
Shortly before declaring her candidature for the Labour leadership, Rebecca Long-Bailey called for a revival of what she called "progressive patriotism" to restore the party’s fortunes in working class communities. Ruth Kinna explores the implications of the term and whether patriotism can ever truly be deemed progressive.
Ash Wednesday: Open Selections: How Can Something so Boring, Be so Contentious?
This week Rebecca Long-Bailey announced her support for open selections. Ash Sarkar explains why this issue cuts to the heart of the Labour Party.
Opinion: Keir Starmer’s Call to End Factionalism Must Not Mean a Return to the Status Quo
Michael Walker
There is a promise the leadership hopeful could make, argues Michael Walker, which would fulfil his desire to end damaging internecine war without undermining accountability: open selections.
Opinion: We Must Not Let Centrists Use the Idea of Electability to Uphold the Status Quo
Oliver Durose
The idea of electability is one of the most powerful tools to keep radicalism out of politics, argues Oliver Durose. Whether it’s Bernie Sanders, Jagmeet Singh or Jeremy Corbyn, politicians who move too far away from the centre are warned that they will alienate voters and gift elections to the other side.
Electionsesh2019
From 9:30pm til 5am Novara Media stayed with you for the GE2019 election results.
GE2019: The Only Way is Tory? Resisting the Inevitable in the Conservative Heartlands of Essex
Oliver Durose
The Tories have been astoundingly successful at reframing cruelty as mere fatalism, argues Labour candidate Oliver Durose. In Essex and across the country the belief that inequality, injustice and unfairness are simply inevitable has permeated the consciousness of both its victors and its victims. We must change this.