New: Me for @labourlist.bsky.social on the backlash over the 'graveyard slot' the deputy leadership hustings has got at conference - after many members leave. 🧵 labourlist.org/2025/09/depu...

After two and a half amazing years living and breathing all things Labour as editor of LabourList (more on that later), I'm relishing a new freelance chapter with two great new roles. 🧵

🗳️ New: I've just heard the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social party’s national executive committee (NEC) will meet on Monday to decide on the internal election to replace Angela Rayner as deputy leader. More here on the latest: labourlist.org/2025/09/labo...

🏨 New: Another Labour-run council weighs up its options for using planning law to stop a local hotel housing asylum seekers in the wake of Epping judgement. Latest here from Stevenage, which had already threatened enforcement action before the High Court case: labourlist.org/2025/08/asyl...

I wrote about my often fairly miserable time on the doorstep last summer hearing just how much the public hates politicians, and how Labour hasn't – and maybe can't – deal with the anti-politics that feeds Reform: labourlist.org/2025/07/labo...

◀️ Almost two-thirds of members said they want to see Labour move to the left

Up bright and early to talk all things Labour on BBC Breakfast in Media City…on at 7.30. No prizes for guessing we’ll be talking welfare

🤨 One Labour insider: “Whoever ‘hand-picked’ this new intake is probably going to have a tough quarterly assessment." Editor @tombelger.bsky.social writes on how Labour's tight grip on selections didn't yield as loyal 'Starmtroopers' as planned: labourlist.org/2025/06/welf...

'Our choices are Labour choices,' Rachel Reeves says in the Spending Review speech. A definite new emphasis on Labour being Labour...

Great to interview @andyburnham.bsky.social (on a northbound Northern line train, naturally) on: 🕊️ His view on Labour's 'wings' and 'factionalism' 💷 The Spending Review ⚖️How the whip system could be radically overhauled labourlist.org/2025/06/spen...

📈 Great to see LabourList's exclusive Labour member polling by the top team at Survation featured on @skynewsrss.bsky.social on Sunday. Lots more to come on @labourlist.bsky.social from the survey, including on members' views on the Spending Review - with snippets featured here:

🔥Top reporting and graphics by my colleague @dangreenjourno.bsky.social for this coverage, picked up across the media today.

🌹The council leader warned that without addressing the “root causes”, Farage could make serious gains and even be the next Prime Minister. “Without those Red Wall seats, there is no second term. It’s done.” Read more here: labourlist.org/2025/06/spen...

Great result for Labour.

A big intervention from the GM mayor just ahead of the Spending Review...notable how wide-ranging the policies he sets out are (to rapturous applause at the @compassoffice.bsky.social conference)

@miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social , the one minister at @compassoffice.bsky.social’s #radicalrenewal conference today in London, calls for a ‘new economic model’.

📣 'We've had New Labour and Blue Labour. It's now time for Lou Labour.' Neal Lawson introduces @louisehaighmp.bsky.social at @compassoffice.bsky.social's #RadicalRenewal conference to give a speech ahead of the spending review. She says Labour's too often chosen 'caution and consensus'

I think this is the most explicit I've seen party figures be publicly about the risks of trying to repeat the 2024 strategy (albeit not that many people likely to advocate for the exact same message after years in power...)

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🌹The LabourList team are excited to announce we'll be holding a special online event, in partnership with the @parentinfantfdn.bsky.social , to discuss what the Labour Missions mean for babies?👶 Get your free tickets by clicking the link below! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-do-th...

📢 Starmer's 'take back control' message isn't just a panicked response to Reform. But his immigration stance has clearly changed, and it makes attacking him all too easy - especially when he claims he's been consistent, writes LabourList editor @tom_belger: labourlist.org/2025/05/keir...

Streeting also just said the government wants to be a "light on the hill for progressives around the world", in response to a question about Donald Trump's presidency.

Reasonably chunky drop in gilt yields this morning. The GREAT PANIC of early 2025 has been wiped out.

I see Kemi Badenoch is bigging up means testing the pensions triple lock - a completely mad position to take politically after slamming Labour for months for, umm, means testing the Winter Fuel Allowance

Top reporting by my colleagues @dangreenjourno.bsky.social and Luke O'Reilly - and glad we could give the activist John a platform:

Important, impassioned and interesting piece by Joani Reid - I think many Labour MPs will share her 'puzzlement' at the small number of their colleagues floating the idea Reeves might have to go in the media.

It's striking that schooling's dropped off the news agenda so much that Labour rolling back some academisation reforms - once one of the last government's flagship policies - barely gets much attention beyond specialist education media. No revolution but still landmark changes:

Had a really interesting conversation with someone about pensions last night (no, really!) and now I'm sure that the only reason we're not publicly talking about the pensions timebomb is because all the journalists who could write about it don't have one and can't bear to face what that might mean

Insightful piece from Chris Carter - worth a read on the rise of Reform in Wales:

The chair of Compass Neal Lawson says a 17-month Labour probe has cleared him of breaching party rules over a tweet backing cross-party collaboration. No comment as yet from Labour HQ: labourlist.org/2024/11/neal...

New: @scottishlabour.bsky.social leader Anas Sarwar has promised to restore universal winter fuel payments in Scotland: labourlist.org/2024/11/labo...