UK politics and the UK political system are broken. Every week political discourse finds new lows of invective fuelled by a failing Tory Government wanting to weaponise division, racism and…
20 Mar, 2024
Labour Party
24 Mar, 2023
Can the next Labour Government succeed in changing Britain?
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
An open letter to Labour Party General Secretary David Evans
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
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
Campaign News: Only Stand to Win blocked from Labour Conference. We’re challenging that.
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
The story of Tory Britain as we have known it is over. Time for Labour to get radical
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
Power Now!
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
Leader of the Swale Council on the Coalition
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 and electoral reform: rage against the machine
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
Will Labour Accept Sharing Power to Win? Caroline Lucas’s speech to Compass Labour Conference rally
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
Labour must work with others to defeat this dishonest Tory government
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
A Year of Keir: The Road Not Yet Travelled
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…