Solomon Hughes

Jun 24, 2024 | znetwork.org | Solomon Hughes

This March, Andrew Marr told New Statesman readers there is a “battle for Keir Starmer’s soul” as “two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future.” Marr said these groups fighting to “control” Starmer are the Tony Blair Institute and Labour Together. Labour members certainly weren’t told they were getting a vote-Starmer-get-Blair deal. With Labour Together, many simply won’t know who they are, let alone whether they want them in charge.

Jun 24, 2024 | jacobin.com | Solomon Hughes

This March, Andrew Marr told New Statesman readers there is a “battle for Keir Starmer’s soul” as “two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future.” Marr said these groups fighting to “control” Starmer are the Tony Blair Institute and Labour Together. Labour members certainly weren’t told they were getting a vote-Starmer-get-Blair deal. With Labour Together, many simply won’t know who they are, let alone whether they want them in charge.

Jun 18, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Solomon Hughes

This March, Andrew Marr told New Statesman readers there is a ‘battle for Keir Starmer’s soul’ as ‘two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future’. Marr said these groups fighting to ‘control’ Starmer are the Tony Blair Institute and Labour Together. Labour members certainly weren’t told they were getting a vote-Starmer-get-Blair deal. With Labour Together, many simply won’t know who they are, let alone whether they want them in charge.

Dec 8, 2023 | tribunemag.co.uk | Solomon Hughes

In 2020 the Labour Party issued a press release in which its deputy leader, Angela Rayner, ripped into the Conservative government over ‘reports that lobbyists have been secretly serving as advisers to government ministers and departments’ and other revelations of ‘cronyism’ around ‘businesses and individuals with close links to the Conservative Party’. Rayner said it showed there was ‘one rule for lobbyists and their paying clients and another rule for the rest of us’.

Oct 12, 2023 | tribunemag.co.uk | Solomon Hughes

It’s Tuesday Night at Labour Party Conference and I have just walked past the drinks reception held by Progressive Britain, one of the leading organisations of Labour’s Blairite right, formerly known as Progress. The group have much to celebrate: polls are in Labour’s favour, Conference is getting positive press, and Starmer’s latest re-shuffle cemented Labour’s right wing in the Shadow Cabinet at the expense of the party’s soft left.