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IAN LAVERY
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister An
Labour Conference 2024 / 20 September 2024
20 September 2024
IAN LAVERY MP looks at the first months of Labour government and warns a new approach is needed if it is to reshape Britain
front populaire
Durham Miners' Gala / 13 July 2024
13 July 2024
Former miner and Labour MP IAN LAVERY reflects on how to regain trust and offer hope as we celebrate the Durham Miners' Gala
11 - vote Labour
Features / 4 July 2024
4 July 2024
Former party chair IAN LAVERY urges voters who may be tempted to lend their support to alternative left candidates to stick with Labour to smash the main enemy of our class as completely as possible
miners strike
Features / 10 February 2024
10 February 2024
IAN LAVERY MP, who took part in – and was arrested on – the great strike, looks back on the significance of this heightened period of class struggle
(Left to right) Liz Truss, Ranil Jayawardena, Dame Priti Pat
Features / 9 October 2023
9 October 2023
We have a chance to offer not just a better standard of life, but a politics of meaning and hope if we win power – otherwise, all signs point to a hard-right politics of hatred taking hold, warns IAN LAVERY MP
Dylan Clarkson, 6, parades through Durham during the Durham
DURHAM MINERS’ GALA ’23 / 8 July 2023
8 July 2023
Draconian new anti-working-class laws mean events like the gala need to be vigorously defended, writes IAN LAVERY MP
Labour rosette
Features / 21 June 2023
21 June 2023
Having politicians who understand working people’s problems through lived experience is surely part of the solution to a loss of trust in politics. But current trends show Labour going in the opposite direction, warns IAN LAVERY MP
Liz Truss
Features / 25 September 2022
25 September 2022
Truss and Kwarteng are determined to rerun failed free-market policies, but this time taken to new, devastating extremes that will see living standards in Britain slip behind eastern Europe, warns IAN LAVERY MP
The door of 10 Downing Street, London
Features / 9 July 2022
9 July 2022
IAN LAVERY has no pity to spare for the charlatan leaving Downing Street – and says leadership will be found not in the Tory ranks but on the streets of Durham this weekend
Batley and Spen
Features / 2 July 2021
2 July 2021
The result in Batley and Spen ought to galvanise the party leadership to set out its vision for the future – but there are few signs this will happen any time soon, says IAN LAVERY MP
Ranks of police face the picketing line outside Orgreave Cok
Features / 18 June 2021
18 June 2021
Thatcher’s administration said it was an innocent bystander in a dispute between the NUM and the Coal Board — but the truth is that it was involved at the highest level in state repression against ordinary workers, writes IAN LAVERY
Ian Lavery
Features / 1 March 2021
1 March 2021
IAN LAVERY MP writes that research done by his organisation and polls nationally show that the only thing that reversed the decline of Labour's vote in constituencies like his were the bold progressive proposals of the Corbyn era