I want to be deputy leader so I can do more
Also this week: taking the fight to Reform, and ministerial karaoke at Labour conference
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Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson is the Education Secretary, and has been Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South since 2010.
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Labour loves nostalgia. But we succeed when our politics is about the future
There’s a market in offering toughness on immigration and nostalgia for an imagined past – but it’s not one…
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Labour’s 2017 manifesto was far from perfect – we can’t be bound by it forever
Even if you think the manifesto was spot on, then unless you believe the world has not changed, there…
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If we want to win the next referendum, we’ll need a better campaign than the last one
We need to be honest, both with ourselves as politicians, and with the electorate.
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Theresa May wants my support for Brexit deal. Here’s how she can get it
There seems to be no majority in this Parliament, either for this deal or for any other outcome.
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Holiday hunger’ and ‘period poverty’ campaigns risk forgetting what poverty really means
I worry that in pointing at specific, uncontroversial things that people in poverty might spend their money on, Labour…
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Machine politics is underrated – and essential to winning power and changing policy
Political machines aren’t glamorous but they are vital to political success, says Labour MP Bridget Philipson.
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The 2017 election was far from a triumph – Labour must do a lot more to win
We are still not seeing a vision for a fundamentally different and better Britain.
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Don’t just listen to people’s concerns about immigration. Think
Labour must be an alternative political leadership, not advocates for positions in which we don’t actually believe.
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