Michael Payne Articles

Devolution needs to be at the heart of our party —While the debate rages about the future of our party and its route back to national government, we run the risk of making a catastrophic mistake: ignoring the hundreds of examples that already exist of how Labour in...

The Suicide of Britain. Shocking as this sounds, this was the title of an op-ed piece in the New York Times two days after the general election. The article warned that the forces of nationalism were now on the brink of overwhelming the 300-year-old union. It was not...

Labour needs to wake up to the Ukip threat ‘Ukip are more a problem for the Tories than Labour’ – a line I have heard far too often in Labour circles; a complacency that should increasingly worry us. The by-election in Clacton triggered by the resignation of Douglas...