Emma Burnell
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'Hope again' has the power to be more than a slogan - LabourList (opens the original)
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The signs have come down but there is still hope again in the hearts of Labour members. Conference can feel like a bit of a bubble. We spend a few very long, exhausting days fiercely debating policy, listening to speeches and touring evening receptions. But it is an important annual moment of stock-taking and refreshing for Labour. And this year was both no exception and exceptional. It was no exception because the shape of conference is always roughly the same. As James Tibbitts and I sat in th
'We are all hero voters now' - LabourList (opens the original)
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Andy is an exceptionally good orator – perhaps the best we’ve had since Blair. But Tony Blair (and those who try to emulate him) had a tendency to use the audience of members as applause machines or worse, would deliberately pick fights with the membership in a somewhat crude attempt to demonstrate how New Labour had changed. This speech attempted something quite different. It did not look at members and the voters as two separate blocks to be offered two different messages. Instead, Burnham use
'Activists are not as weird as we worry they are' - LabourList (opens the original)
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Watching the coverage of the Lib Dem conference has been quite interesting and instructive. You might expect me to go into a series of jokes at the Lib Dems’ expense here. It’s the easy and – let’s face it, natural – instinct for a Labour partisan. But I think there’s a more interesting avenue to explore – the role of members in a modern political party – especially when it comes to conference season – is an area of some debate within parties and some misunderstanding when it comes to how member
New beginnings, old problems, different solutions - LabourList (opens the original)
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I have been the editor of LabourList for just over a year. I still sometimes meet old friends I haven’t seen for a while who congratulate me on my new job. But when it comes to the leadership of Labour (or, in our case, Labour-facing) organisations I am a comparatively old hand. Over the summer Labour got a new national leader in Andy Burnham and a new Welsh leader in Ken Skates. Yesterday, Joe Fortune was appointed as General Secretary by the NEC and tomorrow either Joe Fagan or Michael Marra w
The state of our unions - LabourList (opens the original)
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As TUC Congress opens the union movement is in a more robust state than it has been in for some time. After many years of decline, union membership numbers rose in both the public and private sectors last year – with nearly 200,000 members added to the overall figures, bringing them to 6.6 million. This was the largest annual increase since 1995. At the same time unions saw the passing of the flagship Employment Rights Act which strengthened workers’ rights in a range of areas. These include str
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