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In 2024, I reviewed the book that Andy Burnham co-wrote Liverpool city region mayor Steve Rotheram. Given the forthcoming Makerfield byelection, the book seems even more relevant than ever now. Their manifesto makes interesting reading. @LabourHub labourhub.org.uk/2024/03/07/cha…

Education for sale Mike Phipps reviews Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons, by Guy Standing, published by Pelican. @penguinrandom labourhub.org.uk/2026/05/16/edu…

The question for us in @SocialistHealth is not whether Starmer goes, but who comes next. Wes Streeting’s resignation letter made some bold claims about his tenure as SoS Health. We looked at the impacts of his policies, actions and inactions here: sochealth.co.uk/2026/05/15/sha…

EXCL: Senior Labour figures are concerned that the party will be dragged towards “bankruptcy” if Andy Burnham successfully stands as its candidate in the Makerfield by-election, triggering a mayoral by-election and possibly a leadership contest Others say a Burnham leadership would attract enough new members to counteract all the costs: politicshome.com/news/article/b…

Jeremy might say no but for me it’s a point of principle that he should be invited to come back. I want to reunite the Labour family so we can take on and beat Reform.

The right to use Kurdish newsfromkurdistan.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/the…

Labour doesn’t just need a new leader but a new direction. Labour must ditch the disastrous strategy of trying to “out-Reform” Reform. And instead deliver real Labour policies to win back the progressive voters who’ve abandoned our party. My new article labouroutlook.org/2026/05/14/ric…

Come and join us tomorrow ( Saturday 16rh May) on the march to commemorate the Nakba, the days when the Palestinian people were forced from their homeland. Their suffering and struggle goes on. We march in solidarity.

Arise's Matt Willgress on more than 32,000 people having signed a statement of solidarity with @HackneyAbbott against the disgraceful way she's been treated- you can add your signature and tell Starmer that you stand with her too here: bit.ly/WeStandWithDia…

Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza, seven months on middleeasteye.net/news/seven-mon…

Red Wall Tory voters defect to Reform, but Muslim vote leaves Labour Michael Hindley looks at May’s local election results in the former East Lancashire Cotton Belt. @HindleyLancs labourhub.org.uk/2026/05/15/red…

78 years ago, over 750,000 Palestinians were forced to flee their homes during the Nakba. Today, they continue to face genocide and settler violence under Israeli apartheid. We must continue to call for the UK to cut ties, impose sanctions and ban all arms to Israel.

@supertanskiii I agree and I think you should rejoin the Labour Party. We disagree on quite a bit but we need a wide range of voices if we’re going to rebuild the Labour Party as a progressive coalition and stop Farage. What do you think are you in? join.labour.org.uk/join

I back Andy Burnham as a prime ministerial candidate. Don’t agree with some of his past actions but he’s our most popular politician and has a rare positive rating. He’s a solid communicator, he supports PR, his vision is broadly progressive and he could see off Farage. Do it.

Farage says £5m gift was a reward for Brexit campaigning. Billionaire living in Thailand bought Brexit. Previously, Farage said £5m was for his security. What next? After receiving £5m, Farage bought £1.4m property in cash, one of the four he owns. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

British Gas has finally been held to account for the forced prepayment meter scandal. @ofgem found the company knew about failings as far back as 2018 and still didn’t act. The regulator has said the firm must pay compensation and has been fined. But the story isn’t over... Our response: endfuelpoverty.org.uk/british-gas-fi…

I know the news Andy Burnham has a route back to Westminster will divide opinion. So, before anything else, I want to speak plainly – to Labour members and voters, to those who have left us, and to anyone on the centre-left, whether you vote Green, Lib Dem, or are simply looking for a politics that hasn't given up on you. Last week's local election results were, for many of us, existential. Not disappointing. Not a setback. Existential. Look across Europe and beyond at what happens to social democratic parties that refuse to step outside the economic orthodoxy of the last forty years – the one that hollowed out our public services, privatised what was ours, drove inequality to indecent levels, and cleared the ground for the authoritarian right to march into. That is the path we are on. Keir Starmer has refused to see it, and the country cannot afford another general election spent finding out the hard way. So let me be direct. The Prime Minister should set out a timeline for an orderly transition. I have said this before. I say it again now because the stakes have changed. Reform is not a protest – it is a project. And it will not be beaten by a Labour Party that mistakes managerial caution for strategy. As regards Andy, I want to set down here that I do not see him as some kind of messiah. Far from it. As someone who has been around frontline politics for more than twenty years, he has made his fair share of mistakes. But for the last ten years he has been a serious, grounded, and effective Mayor of Greater Manchester. The party and the country need their strongest players on the pitch, and he has a great deal to offer at a moment when the national stage has rarely mattered more. I hope the NEC will listen to the overwhelming view of the Cabinet, the PLP, the membership, and the unions, and let Andy stand. And I hope and believe the people of Makerfield will send him back to Parliament. But that is not a given. We know Reform will throw everything at this by-election. We must do the same and then some. Reform have spent a year being told they are inevitable. Makerfield is where we find out whether that is true. Every advance has a limit. This is where we set it. Millions of people, including my constituents in Norwich South, need this government to succeed. They need housing, working public services, secure jobs, water and energy that serves them rather than extracts from them. That work is not finished. But the honest truth is that stopping Reform and rebuilding the country is bigger than any one party. It will take a progressive politics willing to listen, willing to cooperate where the public interest demands it, and willing to drop the tribal habits that got us here. The country is ahead of us on this. It is time we caught up. Makerfield is one of many places where Labour has lost trust. It is an area Andy knows and has lived in for many years. If selected, he will work hard to win that trust back and make the case for a Labour Party worth voting for again. That case has to be made not only to people who once voted Labour, but to everyone who believes the answer to Reform is a serious, democratic, social alternative – not a paler imitation of the politics that created the problem. This by-election is not about one seat. It is a test of whether Labour understands the moment we are in. No single party is going to stop Reform on its own. The progressive majority in this country is real – but it is scattered across Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems, nationalists, independents, and millions of people who have stopped voting altogether. Our job is not to demand they all come back to us. It is to earn the right to work with them, on shared ground, for a shared future. To former Labour voters: come and talk to us again. To Green and Lib Dem voters: we are not enemies. To Labour members and MPs: this is the fight. Let's get on with it. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We were warned on Saturday by Christabel Cooper, the Director of Research at Labour Together, at a @LewesLabour event that a rebrand was coming. Personally I think it’s all a bit of a Fraud! Are you at all convinced? The Fraud - Paul Holden Interview👇 youtu.be/NvO5sQ8X4zQ