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· Jul 25
Emma Burnell announced as new LabourList Editor - LabourList
LabourList is delighted to announce that Emma Burnell has been appointed as the new Editor of the leading media and events platform for all things Labour.
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I am deeply honoured and incredibly excited to be announced as the new Editor of @labourlist.bsky.social.
I have been a reader, contributor and fan of the site since it started. It's a vital place to discuss, explore and examine all things Labour.
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I have been a reader, contributor and fan of the site since it started. It's a vital place to discuss, explore and examine all things Labour.
labourlist.org/2025/07/new-...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
LabourList isn’t just for Christmas — it’s forever🌹
Support the site that supports our movement, 365 days a year.
Your festive donation makes a real difference 🎁
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Your festive donation makes a real difference 🎁
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How are you? What have you been up to?
(This is the best way of giving my age addled & mildly face blind brain the space to work out who I’m talking to and for them to give me clues without either of us feeling insulted)
(This is the best way of giving my age addled & mildly face blind brain the space to work out who I’m talking to and for them to give me clues without either of us feeling insulted)
"Never, ever say ‘nice to meet you’. To anyone. There’s a high percentage chance that you have met them"
This is true. I mess this up all the time
This is true. I mess this up all the time
It’s work party season — here’s a survival guide on.ft.com/3Kv91S4 #FTEdit
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How are you? What have you been up to?
(This is the best way of giving my age addled & mildly face blind brain the space to work out who I’m talking to and for them to give me clues without either of us feeling insulted)
(This is the best way of giving my age addled & mildly face blind brain the space to work out who I’m talking to and for them to give me clues without either of us feeling insulted)
I am willing to bet the lettuce got better viewing figures.
The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
Britain’s briefest PM kept her fans waiting before launching her latest plea for Maga attention in the form of a ham-fisted YouTube talk show
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December 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I am willing to bet the lettuce got better viewing figures.
Today is a good day to be a Labour member.
Labour can be proud of the strategy it has announced today. Now they must get on to deliver it. To realise the potential of all children. @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the government's Child Poverty Strategy
‘The Child Poverty Strategy shows why a Labour government matters’ – LabourList
This is an adapted version of my analysis from the LabourList email this morning. To receive our email every weekday morning please subscribe here. Yesterday I…
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December 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Today is a good day to be a Labour member.
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Labour can be proud of the strategy it has announced today. Now they must get on to deliver it. To realise the potential of all children. @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the government's Child Poverty Strategy
‘The Child Poverty Strategy shows why a Labour government matters’ – LabourList
This is an adapted version of my analysis from the LabourList email this morning. To receive our email every weekday morning please subscribe here. Yesterday I…
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December 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Labour can be proud of the strategy it has announced today. Now they must get on to deliver it. To realise the potential of all children. @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the government's Child Poverty Strategy
Telling that she couldn’t even get a GB News show.
The former Tory leader Liz Truss promises to take on the ‘free speech crisis’ and confront issues ‘others tiptoe round’ in the episodes on YouTube
The Liz Truss Show: ex-PM launches ‘the home of counter-revolution’
The former Tory leader promises to take on the ‘free speech crisis’ and confront issues ‘others tiptoe round’ in the episodes on YouTube
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December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Telling that she couldn’t even get a GB News show.
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Labour launch ambitious Child Poverty Strategy, promising around 550,000 children will be lifted out of poverty by 2030 and deliver Labour's 'moral mission'.
Labour publish ambitious child poverty strategy to lift over half a million kids out of poverty by 2030 – LabourList
Labour will launch its Child Poverty Strategy tomorrow, promising the biggest fall in child poverty in a single parliament since records began. The government says…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Labour launch ambitious Child Poverty Strategy, promising around 550,000 children will be lifted out of poverty by 2030 and deliver Labour's 'moral mission'.
The chess stories are not just ridiculous. They also devalue any genuine criticism you may have of the chancellor in their ridiculousness.
Now it’s just a wall of shrill stupid noise. A package with enough nonsense in it to be easily dismissed.
Now it’s just a wall of shrill stupid noise. A package with enough nonsense in it to be easily dismissed.
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The chess stories are not just ridiculous. They also devalue any genuine criticism you may have of the chancellor in their ridiculousness.
Now it’s just a wall of shrill stupid noise. A package with enough nonsense in it to be easily dismissed.
Now it’s just a wall of shrill stupid noise. A package with enough nonsense in it to be easily dismissed.
The problem with Whamageddon is it involves avoiding listening to a great song. Which seems self defeating.
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The problem with Whamageddon is it involves avoiding listening to a great song. Which seems self defeating.
Because of course she is involved.
Former Labour MP Claudia Webb is announcing the results of voting at YP conference. She was expelled from Labour after being convicted of harassment.
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Because of course she is involved.
They really do seem to be determined to give up as much political space to the Greens as possible.
Your Party members have voted to have a COLLECTIVE leadership - so against having a single leader (for now).
So no Corbyn v Sultana leadership race just yet...
Vote was tight - 51.7% in favour
So no Corbyn v Sultana leadership race just yet...
Vote was tight - 51.7% in favour
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
They really do seem to be determined to give up as much political space to the Greens as possible.
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
I would offer to swap for my 2 bed in Leyton but no fucking way I’m moving to North Kensington from God’s own country.
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I would offer to swap for my 2 bed in Leyton but no fucking way I’m moving to North Kensington from God’s own country.
It’s niece movie night again! Tonight’s double bill…
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It’s niece movie night again! Tonight’s double bill…
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Labour MPs, unions and think tanks have broadly welcomed the Chancellor’s Budget - but hit out at the OBR’s “unacceptable” leak
A lot done… a lot more to do? MPs, unions and think tanks react to Budget – LabourList
Labour MPs, unions and think tanks have broadly welcomed the Chancellor’s Budget - but hit out at the OBR’s “unacceptable” leak. Rachel Reeves received significant…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Labour MPs, unions and think tanks have broadly welcomed the Chancellor’s Budget - but hit out at the OBR’s “unacceptable” leak
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If you're the poor sod at the OBR who might find themselves with a bit more time on their hands next week don't worry! You can still be a winner at the LabourList Xmas pub quiz!
LabourList Christmas Pub Quiz
It’s time to sleigh the Labour trivia season! Join LabourList for an evening of festive fun and political puzzlers.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If you're the poor sod at the OBR who might find themselves with a bit more time on their hands next week don't worry! You can still be a winner at the LabourList Xmas pub quiz!
I was on the Daily Politics talking all things budget today. Here’s a clip!
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was on the Daily Politics talking all things budget today. Here’s a clip!
In his denial Farage sounded a lot like a traditional politician. It might, sadly, be this that does him more damage than the allegations.
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
In his denial Farage sounded a lot like a traditional politician. It might, sadly, be this that does him more damage than the allegations.
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I think this sums up Blue Labour to a tee: someone experiences, or shares a human tragedy, and you feel sad for them, but equally it doesn’t give them license to tear up 600 years of information about what drives prosperity and replace it with saying the word “relational” a lot.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I think this sums up Blue Labour to a tee: someone experiences, or shares a human tragedy, and you feel sad for them, but equally it doesn’t give them license to tear up 600 years of information about what drives prosperity and replace it with saying the word “relational” a lot.
I’ve been in my flat 12 years this week. I moved in in 2013 which at the time felt like the worst year of my life.
But without 2013 I would not now be happier then I have ever ever been.
That started here in this flat that I love every bit as much today as the day I moved in.
But without 2013 I would not now be happier then I have ever ever been.
That started here in this flat that I love every bit as much today as the day I moved in.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’ve been in my flat 12 years this week. I moved in in 2013 which at the time felt like the worst year of my life.
But without 2013 I would not now be happier then I have ever ever been.
That started here in this flat that I love every bit as much today as the day I moved in.
But without 2013 I would not now be happier then I have ever ever been.
That started here in this flat that I love every bit as much today as the day I moved in.
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Keir Starmer would lose a head-to-head contest against Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband, exclusive polling for LabourList by Survation reveals
Starmer would lose leadership contest to Streeting, Rayner, Burnham and Miliband – LabourList
Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting would all win a head-to-head leadership contest against Keir Starmer, exclusive polling of Labour members reveals.…
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November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Keir Starmer would lose a head-to-head contest against Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband, exclusive polling for LabourList by Survation reveals
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one cannot have both a cat and 1000 jigsaw pieces.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one cannot have both a cat and 1000 jigsaw pieces.
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“We all know why,” says Matt Goodwin.
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“We all know why,” says Matt Goodwin.
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
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Shabana Mahmood is walking a tightrope: can Labour be both compassionate and tough on immigration? Emma Burnell how ‘for the many’ is being tested by hard security politics
‘The politics of security – when ‘for the many’ politics becomes uncomfortable for Labour’ – LabourList
I will never forget something a Labour voter in a very safe Tory seat told me once soon after the 1997 election. He said that…
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November 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Shabana Mahmood is walking a tightrope: can Labour be both compassionate and tough on immigration? Emma Burnell how ‘for the many’ is being tested by hard security politics