Section: Progress Magazine Articles

A year in review

Richard Angell on all the ups and downs from the last 12 months Copeland byelection The Progress team started the new year as we meant to carry on: knocking doors. The byelection in the Labour stronghold of Copeland had been called after member of parliament Jamie...

Leonard’s three big challenges

Scottish Labour should be unambiguously pro-union and anti-hard Brexit, argues Blair McDougall After a bruising, unexpected and unnecessary leadership contest Scottish Labour’s new leader Richard Leonard will have the whole party behind him as he faces three big...

Wanton destruction

Brexit’s impact on the NHS is already proving devastating, writes Ben Bradshaw My most memorable doorstep encounter during the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union was in the last week, with an elderly Exeter couple, solidly Labour, with...

My Life, Our Times

Gordon Brown is likely to be remembered as Labour's greatest chancellor. Will his reputation as prime minister improve with time too? Spencer Livermore thinks so Gordon Brown’s memoir has so far largely been viewed through the prism of his relationship with Tony...