The Director's Cut (09/09/16)

Welcome to the director’s cut.

Please see below my choice as director of Progress of the best recent pieces here on Progress. Let us know your views, and do get in touch if you would like to contribute to the debate yourself. 

This week I was quoted on PoliticsHome, expressing my dismay that Jeremy Corbyn had shared a platform with disgraced Momentum activist Jackie Walker, who claimed that Jews were 'chief financiers of the slave trade’ – comments that even Ken Livingstone deemed unacceptable Read>

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1) Both a Ukip collapse or revival could spell danger for Labour, wrote Matthew Goodwin in the lead essay from the latest edition of Progress magazine (Read>), while Jim McMahon MP argued that Labour must earn, or lose, northern working-class support Read>

2) We must protect Japanese investment’s ‘second home’ of the north-east of England, said Phil Wilson MP (Read>), while Albert Owen MP shared similar concerns for the fate of Japanese nuclear investment on the Isle of Anglesey Read>

3) The Tories have no mandate to water down workers’ rights, warned Melanie Onn MP as she moved a bill in parliament to prevent just that Read>

4) Should Labour return to the three-part electoral college in its leadership election? Anna Turley MP and Jonathan Reynolds MP debated Read>

5) The public don’t hate ‘professional politicians’ – they hate bad professional politicians, wrote The Progressive Read>