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From Labour’s conference problems Mrs May might infer Labour couldn’t cope with a snap general election

From Labour’s conference problems Mrs May might infer Labour couldn’t cope with a snap general election

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What a palaver Labour finds itself in https://t.co/59BsukOrKZ pic.twitter.com/XQBGfF1y5G — TSE (@TSEofPB) August 26, 2016 If Labour cannot properly organise a conference with a year’s notice, surely they couldn’t cope with a snap general election? In the past 24 hours, Labour’s annual conference has been thrown into doubt, as Labour were snubbed by G4S, the firm Labour had been boycotting until recently. Conor Pope of Labourlist writes Concerns are mounting over whether Labour conference – due to open in less…

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I’m not sure a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party is equipped to endure the white heat of a six week general election campaign

I’m not sure a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party is equipped to endure the white heat of a six week general election campaign

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Labour leader @JeremyCorbyn reluctantly answers a question from @DMcCaffreySKY on #TrainGate https://t.co/nLPGEP48Xs — Sky News (@SkyNews) August 24, 2016 Under Jeremy Corbyn Labour are ceasing to be a serious political party and in danger of turning into a The Thick Of It tribute Perhaps I’m being unduly harsh on Jeremy Corbyn, but the clip above of his press conference yesterday was a mixture of the downright embarrassing and painful to watch, all because of Traingate. All politicians make gaffes, or…

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The PLP indicate that they expect Corbyn to win and that they won’t split

The PLP indicate that they expect Corbyn to win and that they won’t split

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Interesting story about what the PLP will do if Corbyn wins the leadership contesthttps://t.co/X0Hc8AsJPL pic.twitter.com/WGrWK24bkS — TSE (@TSEofPB) August 21, 2016 Labour MPs set to hoist Corbyn by his own petard? There’s an interesting story in today’s Sunday Times (££) which Politicshome have covered for free here, it says The Sunday Times reports the “party within a party” framework will be based on the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, which counts Mr Corbyn as a member. According to the paper,…

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The polls might still be overstating Labour

The polls might still be overstating Labour

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Disillusionment and disengagement rather than defection is the danger The Ipsos-Mori poll this week contained a paradox. On the one hand, Labour’s headline voting intention share was 34%, some way up on their General Election performance. On the other, Jeremy Corbyn’s approval ratings were awful. His overall score of -34 was bad enough but his net rating with Labour’s own voters, at -7%, was considerably lower than Theresa May’s approval rating of some +16% with those same voters. In fact…

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Labour’s paradox: The huge increase in members hasn’t led to greater electoral success, rather the reverse

Labour’s paradox: The huge increase in members hasn’t led to greater electoral success, rather the reverse

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Latest party membership totals: Parliament Research Briefing One of the most extraordinary phenomenon of modern UK political times has been the massive increase in Labour’s membership since GE2015. The figures are just astounding and there is no parallel. Membership, May 6th 2015: 201,293 Membership, January 10th 2016: 388,407 Membership, August 2016: 515,000 From a political organisational point of view this is amazing because the general view is that more members mean more people ready and able to carry out the…

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Ex-LAB MP and PB regular, Nick Palmer, on why a party split won’t work

Ex-LAB MP and PB regular, Nick Palmer, on why a party split won’t work

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It’s pretty clear that Corbyn has won the re-run, and talk of trying once more next year has faded amid eye-rolling on all sides at the thought of doing it all over again. Instead, the hard-core anti-Corbyn wing has started to talk about a split. This could take two forms: A Parliament-only split. The objective would be to win over more than half the MPs and persuade the Speaker that this meant that the rebels were the real official opposition…

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Labour chooses an Everton fan to be its candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester

Labour chooses an Everton fan to be its candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester

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He’s resigning as an MP creating a by-election in Leigh One of the legacies of George Osborne’s chancellorship was the creation of an executive mayor to cover the greater Manchester region. This was the spearhead of the “Northern Powerhouse” which is no longer looked on favourably by the current occupant of Number 10. You can understand Andy Burnham, after what must have been a bruising failure in last year’s LAB leadership contest, looked round for something else that he could…

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