Luke Dunne
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Can anyone lead Labour back into power?
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Never has a major party leadership election felt so insignificant. Whereas the race which followed Labour’s 2015 defeat felt like a battle for the soul of the party, the 2020 equivalent has nowhere near the same sense of urgency. This partly reflects the severity of Labour’s defeat in last year’s general election, and the Covid-19…
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Labour Leadership Race – The Road to Power
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This marks the beginning of a series on the Labour leadership race. I’m kicking off by discussing what choosing the right leadership team means, and why it matters. A Conservative led government first came into power when I was nine years old. The Left in this country has torn itself apart and put itself back…
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Try Again, Fail Again, Learn Nothing – The Nauseating Repetition of Britain’s Justice Reforms
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Right wing political parties live and die less on the basis of specific policy outcomes than on their ability to cultivate a general image as the ‘sensible’ option, the ‘common sense’ option and the ‘hard but fair’ option. The most recent changes to policing and prisons policy announced last month by the British government, which…