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TWO decades after she became acting Labour leader in the wake of John Smith’s death, Margaret Beckett has once again stepped up to pick up the pieces of a broken party.
Labour trounced the Tories in the European elections when Ms Beckett led the party for three months in 1994 under unexpected and unwanted circumstances. And now the veteran MP has been asked to lead Labour’s investigation into its worst election defeat since 1992.
Labour announced yesterday that Ms Beckett has been appointed as chair of its “learning the lessons from defeat” task force.
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says