The great theme for the Labour Party now is the need for participation and a greater involvement of MPs and local authorities in the decisions that are made by government.

This was the basis on which the Prime Minister made his statement about the need for Parliament to have a bigger role and to invite Digby Jones and others into consultation.

This idea surfaced during the deputy leadership campaign and [...]

This book charges the American and British governments with genocide against the people of Iraq, a charge that is exceptionally well documented by its authors, including Dennis Halliday, who resigned as the senior United Nations official responsible for the "oil for food" programme. He witnessed, at first hand, the terrible suffering imposed by sanctions. Today, the bombing of Iraq goes on, but it is scarcely referred to in the mainstream [...]

Next year I shall be celebrating the 50th anniversary of my election to the House of Commons, but recently it has been hard not to draw the contrast between the Labour government of then and the one that is now in office.

Polling day for my by-election was 30 November 1950, and while the people of Bristol South East were voting, President Truman threatened to use an atom bomb in [...]

The announcement that "new Labour" is now totally committed to the single currency and that public money is to be poured into preparing for entry has transformed the parliamentary scene. Last week, the Prime Minister pledged himself to work closely with Michael Heseltine and Paddy Ashdown to push this project through. What he himself called a patriotic alliance is being formed which, for all practical purposes, will be developed and [...]