Tom Belger

Many attendees who spill out onto Liverpool’s waterfront make for bars, restaurants and pubs, debating, drinking and dancing for hours with friends old and new.

LabourList spoke to over a dozen candidates or campaign teams past and present to unpick the intriguing, varied reasons candidates actually run - and why so many more don’t.

Crime, abortion, net zero. Is Reform campaigning on the best issues to threaten Labour - or is it's voter coalition too fractured?

Who governs Britain? You don’t have to be a Marxist or conspiracy theorist to wonder if the opaque workings of global finance sometimes count for more in politics than the will of politicians and the public.

The Labour party women’s conference will be revived next year with only biological women allowed to vote, but a fringe programme and reception will be open to all regardless of gender and sex, LabourList can reveal.

Some call the Fair Pay Agreement ‘Labour’s most radical policy no-one knows about’.

Will firms now thwart employment rights reforms by making workers their own bosses?

Just how worried should Labour be about the Greens? It is a question that Labour strategists are rightly grappling with.

The constituency of Stevenage has been a bellwether since its creation in 1983, quietly blazing a trail for…

There’s no point running over how bad a day Thursday was for Labour. You really only have to look at the numbers for that one. Over 1000 councillors lost in a single swoop, some of whom are the most decent, hardworking people that our party still has in its ranks. It’s a shame to see them go.