I’m honoured to have been elected to serve the people of Isleworth on Hounslow Council, alongside my Labour colleagues Daanish Saeed and Sue Sampson. Thank you to Ed Mayne, Jack Price and Eden Bailey for helping us to run an energetic if exhausting campaign that allowed us to increase our votes and more than double […]
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After a brutal canvassing session in the howling snow last night, it was off to meet Sadiq Khan at the Civic Centre, then down the pub for a pint and a Vindaloo with Team Labour. All in a day’s work.
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After an action-packed week on the doorstep in Isleworth, hearing about the issues residents want dealt with, I was proud to join my fellow Hounslow Labour candidates and councillors in Parliament at an event hosted by Council Leader Steve Curran and Hounslow’s two MPs, Ruth Cadbury and Seema Malhotra. I look forward to working with them
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Labour’s local election campaign for Isleworth kicked off this week. I’m looking forward to working with my fellow candidates, Daanish Saeed and Sue Sampson, to return three Labour councillors from Isleworth on May 3 who will work hard for a greener, fairer, more equal community. Let’s keep Hounslow Labour.
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The conventional narrative that framed New Labour’s dominance over the party and subsequent election victories went that traditionally left-wing ideas are no longer popular and that votes had to be attracted from the centre and the right. Thus the Labour Party marched ever rightwards, confident in the assumption that its working class and left-wing base
I have a letter in today’s Guardian: Ken Loach’s article (Labour is not the solution, 28 March) has received a fantastic response – 250 people joined Left Unity over the weekend, when we held our first national conference. But Labour supporters would rather see us pack up our things and go home. They tell us
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Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite, has given the strongest indication yet that his union may consider disaffiliating from Labour. At this stage, it’s not much more than a shot across Miliband’s bow as McCluskey attempts to pull Labour’s lax policymaking leftwards. Unite is highly unlikely to rock the boat before the next election. But
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Left Unity is the hottest thing on the left right now. In a few short months, it has attracted more than 1,800 members. With a new member joining every 10 minutes over the weekend, the party is going from strength to strength. On Saturday, Left Unity held its first national conference in Manchester. After a
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Left Unity has been making headlines in the mainstream media lately. Over 200 people joined on Friday after Ken Loach wrote an article about it for the Guardian and Russell Brand tweeted it. Amid the media buzz, I was interviewed by Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics, talking about how Labour’s support for the
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The Tory austerity drive – bound up as it is in the barefaced lie that Britain was brought low in 2008 by benefit scroungers and not reckless bankers – was never about fixing the economy, it is about shrinking the state. As such, it was hardly surprising to see Cameron’s Etonian class warriors lining up
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