As women dominate public services yet face pay gaps, unsafe workloads and rising misogyny, this International Women’s Day and TUC Women’s Conference must be a rallying point, says ANDREA EGAN
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From freebie frocks to foreign policy, conference only exposed the cracks in Starmer’s project
The lack of serious debate on electoral weakness and key policy issues only made the disconnect between the leadership’s austerity agenda and the concerns of the party’s rank-and-file more blatant, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 24, 2024
As the government quietly begins reviewing the BBC’s Royal Charter, the moment should be seized to refound the corporation as a truly democratic, regionally rooted public service, writes PAUL W FLEMING
Like the president in Wag the Dog, Donald Trump faces scandal at home and turns to conflict abroad. But the conflict with Iran risks igniting a regional inferno with global consequences, warns ROGER McKENZIE
With private investment weak and public infrastructure crumbling, the Spring Statement offered little to revive a stagnating economy, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The TUC’s NIKKI POUND says there are gains in the Employment Rights Act for women — but there’s a hell of a lot more to fight for
LABOUR conference? The first thing to understand is that it is not, in essence, a very serious event.
A serious Labour Party conference this year would have included a sober review of the party’s election result, which yielded a large but highly brittle majority on a puny vote share.
The reasons for polling around 10 per cent less of the electorate than anticipated would be examined, and ideas for how to do better next time explored.
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