The drive for devolution of greater powers from Westminster to the regions implies complementary measures to be taken within regions. The more detailed levels of action are barely mentioned in…
14 Oct, 2026
Andy Burnham
09 Oct, 2026
Compass Statement on the Holborn & St. Pancras By-Election
Labour have comfortably held the Holborn and St. Pancras' seat in the by-election triggered by Keir Starmer’s resignation. This is not, despite what some commentators or party organisers say, the…
06 Oct, 2026
What Andy Burnham’s First Two Months in Office Tells Us About Britain’s Two-Party System
The past decade of party politics in Britain has been nothing but turbulent. The salience of Brexit, technology, globalisation, education, and immigration has completely reshaped partisan identification, while the dominant…
29 Sep, 2026
Compass Statement on Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Speech to Labour Conference
Today, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced a National Commission for Electoral Reform and a manifesto commitment to change our electoral system in the next Parliament. He has also committed…
23 Sep, 2026
A Suggestion for the New PM: The Political Economy of Egalitarian Liberty
Neoliberalism was ‘forty years of elite failure’. During that period the financial sector largely became ‘a rent-extraction machine’, which ‘wastes both human and real resources’, and the ‘delicate balance between…
14 Aug, 2026
A Million Houses Don’t Make A Home
Andy Burnham’s premiership will soon be a month old and the vibe is loud and clear: be the opposite of Keir Starmer. That means slick social media, charm and charisma,…
09 Jul, 2026
Telling a Radical Story about the Future of Britain: Is Andy Burnham Labour’s Last Chance?
Andy Burnham is heading to Downing Street as the eighth Labour PM in history and the seventh UK PM in a decade. Labour do not historically move against and dislodge…
19 Jun, 2026
Compass Statement on Makerfield By-election
Today we feel that rare emotion for progressives: the lure of hope. This is an exciting, tantalising, and daunting moment; not just for us at Compass, not just for all…
26 Jan, 2026
Our view on Andy Burnham
Politics now moves at a furious pace. It does so because the foundations beneath our feet, economically, ecologically, socially and technologically, keep shifting. As progressives who want a much more…
10 Jun, 2025
CHANGE: HOW? A Decade of Radical Renewal
Our politics is at a crossroads. The populist right, determined to take us down a path of division and decay, is gaining momentum. The task of the unifying, popular left…
21 Jun, 2023
Winning As One in Greater Manchester
Winning As One means that instead of working against each other, progressives will campaign and fight together - not just against the Conservatives, but for a different, more collaborative kind…