🚂🚂 NEW: Labour’s Louise Haigh pledges to deliver the “biggest overhaul to our railways in a generation” ahead of the launch of the party’s “thorough and detailed roadmap” to take Britain’s rail network into public ownership: labourlist.org/2024/04/labour…

'A correspondent used to write on his letters to the office, ‘Frank Field MP, One Man Think Tank Against Poverty’. Let us hope that his ideas will help our country end the need for food banks in the next Parliament.'

One of Field's old team writes:

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“A brick was thrown at the window of his home, wrapped in a note reading ‘F*** Labour’. Mercifully, the window did not break as beneath it were…sleeping children.'

Neil Emmott of Rochdale Labour Group says a Labour candidate faced a shocking attack:

John has voted Conservative for decades, and stood as a Conservative candidate.

On Thursday 2nd May, he will be voting Labour.

Awful news coming from Ammanford.

My thoughts are with parents, teachers and staff at the school and all of the students. Grateful to the emergency services who are responding.

📢New: The Labour leader of Rochdale is urging local political leaders to join him in calling for a 'civilised' local election campaign – after a brick with a 'f*** Labour' note was allegedly thrown at the window of a Labour candidate's home.

More here:

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Rayner completely dominated PMQs. In confronting it in her first question, she destroyed the Dowden attacks before they took place. He couldn't recover. She demonstrated exactly so many of her opponents fear her as a political figure. They'll double down after today.

'Frank Field stood for goodness in politics. He has embodied both the virtues and the flaws of deep moral commitment in a practical art.'

Philip Collins pays tribute to his first boss – the former Labour MP Frank Field: labourlist.org/2024/04/frank-…

🌹Labour leader Keir Starmer has paid tribute to Frank Field and said his death is a 'profound loss to politics and to our nation'

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New: Tony Blair pays tribute to Frank Field: “Frank had integrity, intelligence and deep commitment to the causes he believed in. He was an independent thinker never constrained by conventional wisdom, but always pushing at the frontier of new ideas.  

'Even when we

We were told the North West would have to accept second-best.

We refused to give in.

And now, finally, the door is open to an ambitious new Liverpool-Manchester line with a modern, underground station at Piccadilly.

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This year marks the Fabian Society's 140th anniversary. To celebrate, we asked Fabians past and present to reflect on its contributions.

Read the first instalment, featuring Labour leader Keir Starmer, here.
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🌹 Very sad news this morning. Two giant figures in late 20th century and more recent Labour history.

We're collecting tributes as they come in to a 'crusader for social justice' and a 'giant of social democracy':

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Tributes are flowing into the former Labour MPs Frank Field and David Marquand.

The LabourList team send our best wishes to their families and friends.

Tributes here as they come in, and if you want to share your own get in touch 👇

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LabourList can reveal a leaked Fabian Society report into its own youth branch found “troubling reports of unchecked misconduct: of bullying, of sexual harassment, of poorly understood safeguarding requirements, of marginalisation and abuses of power”.

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On behalf of the Labour Party, I wish everyone a happy St George’s Day.

Let us be proud of our national identity, confident on the world stage, and sure of our country’s future.

LabourList can reveal a leaked Fabian Society report into its own youth branch found “troubling reports of unchecked misconduct: of bullying, of sexual harassment, of poorly understood safeguarding requirements, of marginalisation and abuses of power”.

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The Fabian Society has said it is 'deeply sorry' after a report into its youth wing found a 'culture of misogyny and marginalisation' labourlist.org/2024/04/young-…

Happy St George’s Day: I wrote this month’s ⁦LabourList⁩ column on flags and inclusive national identity. labourlist.org/2024/04/st-geo…