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UNCOVERED: Neal lawson - The Untold Story

Who are Andy Burnham’s key aides and allies?

Manchester mayor continues to hone his political story, but will need deep organisation to win and wield power

The Guardian - UK

Can Burnham turn ‘Manchesterism’ into a practical offer for government?

Roots of idea for ‘ending neoliberalism’ have been growing over many months – with many different influences

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham Sighted In London Meeting MPs As Pressure Mounts On Keir Starmer To Set A Resignation Timetable

Andy Burnham was reportedly spotted in London meeting MPs as he plans a return to Westminster and a future challenge to Keir Starmer for the premiership.

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Andy Burnham can save Labour and defeat Reform. He should be the next prime minister

Put plainly, the Greater Manchester mayor is electoral gold dust. The Labour party machine must not stand in his way to becoming an MP, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass

The Guardian - UK

Labour can reverse its decision to block Andy Burnham. Here is why it must

Good politics is about collaboration and contestation. The NEC’s ruling means the party has turned its back on that, says Neal Lawson, director of campaign organisation Compass

The Guardian - UK

Farage and the Tory right will unite because they want power. Will the left just stand by?

It’s time for a harsh reality check. A progressive bloc of parties refusing to see a common threat risks disaster, says Neal Lawson of Compass

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s backers never meant him to be prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start

His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the price, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass

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What is the point of Labour’s new deputy leader? Until we know that, the contest isn’t worth having

With the party tanking and Farage in No 10 a possibility, we need a unifying figure who will wake the party from its slumber, says Neal Lawson of Compass

The Guardian - UK

Green party leadership race exposes tensions as electoral ambitions grow

Frontrunner Zack Polanski has dismissed claims of a ‘hostile takeover’ but contest has been unusually fractious

The Guardian - UK

Progressives must unite to see off the far right

Letters: Steve Williams and Jill Green respond to an article by Neal Lawson on cross-party cooperation

The Guardian - UK

After 44 years as a Labour member, I spent 18 months facing expulsion. This is what the party got wrong

People are being threatened and punished at the hint of cross-party cooperation. It’s control freakery we cannot afford, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass

The Guardian - UK

Green party’s ‘progressive politics’ leaves members out in the cold

Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Neal Lawson on the party’s decision to expel activists who united to oust Jeremy Hunt

The Guardian - UK

The Greens, expelling activists for uniting to oust Jeremy Hunt? So much for progressive politics

Local members collaborated to support a Lib Dem candidate. Green HQ’s response is a sad turn away from hope, says Neal Lawson, director of Compass

The Guardian - UK

Labour divided over calls to scrap first past the post after landslide win

Leadership won’t take the risk of proportional representation but members are pushing for change

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Just one term? There is a strategy that can get Keir Starmer to No 10 – and keep him there

The answer is for Labour to work with progressive parties. Voting patterns show just how effective that would be, says Compass director Neal Lawson

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A revolution in the way Britain does politics has begun in Devon. Tory MPs should be afraid

There’s an urgent need for a fairer electoral system – and if politicians won’t make it happen, the people will, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Labour at risk of taking Muslim voters for granted, says thinktank

Rochdale byelection loss will concern MPs in seats with big Muslim populations, says Compass director

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This narrow, win-at-all-costs strategy could take Labour to victory, but not to power

Without bold, transformative ideas, success will simply tie the party’s hands, says Compass director Neal Lawson

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Labour’s broad church has been disestablished

Letters: Readers on the Labour party’s ruthless expulsion of members

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Neal Lawson on the threat of expulsion by Labour: ‘They are making sure no one on the left has a platform’

The founder of Compass has been a Labour member for over 40 years. But last month he was invited to defend himself over a two-year-old tweet - and he now awaits the party’s judgment

The Guardian - UK

Labour must learn to cooperate again

The idea of expelling Neal Lawson, an advocate of cross-party working and pluralism, goes against the party’s founding principles

The Independent UK

Starmer letting right-wing Labour faction try to destroy party left – McDonnell

The backbench MP has written to the party leader to complain that dissenting voices are being stifled.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s crackdown on free thinkers: it’s bad for the party and politics

Editorial: The move against Neal Lawson illuminates a wider strategy to march Labour ever rightwards under the cover of big poll leads

The National (Scotland)

Labour has ‘culture of fear’ and is run by 'pound shop Blairites', Labour MP says

A LABOUR MP has accused Keir Starmer of creating a “culture of fear” in which the Labour Party’s left-wing MPs are worried of being ousted…

The Guardian - UK

In order to win, Labour is sacrificing its principles

Letters: Lyn A Dade calls for an end to the party system, while Michael Gwilt says Labour is holding our votes hostage against the return of Tory rule. Plus Deborah Wilkinson on the need for a diverse leftwing government

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