If the current contours of UK politics continue, next year will see the election of a Labour Government. Keir Starmer will become Labour’s seventh Prime Minister, and a long overdue…
24 Mar, 2023
24 Mar, 2023
If the current contours of UK politics continue, next year will see the election of a Labour Government. Keir Starmer will become Labour’s seventh Prime Minister, and a long overdue…
14 Nov, 2022
Labour’s HQ is taking an extremely heavy-handed approach to Parliamentary selections by ruling out perfectly acceptable candidates on increasingly spurious grounds. Factionalism is one thing. Vice-like control that subverts democracy…
24 Oct, 2022
This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left, from anti-austerity to the fall of Corbyn, A new book by Michael Chessum, charts the revival of left politics…
08 Aug, 2022
Earlier this year, joined by a cohort of Labour MPs, Compass and Compass Labour launched our campaign to Only Stand to Win. Only Stand to Win was a campaign for…
05 Aug, 2022
Some things in life remain constant, but increasingly British politics are being turned upside down. The old assumptions no longer hold and the conventions and rules which used to define…
18 Jul, 2022
A new project from Compass and Labour Together The Power Now Project is a collaboration between Compass and Labour Together, to explore the potential of ‘new power’.Over the past two…
16 Jun, 2022
Swale Borough Council provides district council services to an area of North Kent, including the Isle of Sheppey, the towns of Faversham and Sittingbourne and the surrounding rural hinterland. By…
15 Oct, 2021
Labour's high command is living in the past, and British progressives of every stripe will soon pay the price. At its recent conference in Brighton, Labour narrowly rejected a motion…
30 Sep, 2021
Photo by Graham Simpson On Tuesday 28th September, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion Caroline Lucas spoke alongside Labour MP Clive Lewis, Labour for a New Democracy campaigner Laura Parker and…
20 Apr, 2021
Photo by Number 10 on flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Our prime minister lies, not just a bit but a lot. All of us lie, at least a bit, sometimes –…
01 Apr, 2021
On the anniversary of Keir Starmer's election as Labour leader, Compass reflects on opportunities missed – and the radical, plural politics Labour needs to help deliver the Good Society. If…
10 Sep, 2020
Scottish Labour once seemed to have an ironclad grip on Scottish politics, winning election after election, and seeing off opponents whether it was Tories, SNP or the occasional Lib Dem.…