Steve Lapsley
Steve Lapsley
Editorial
 STV it is! by Open Labour | 30.06.20 | In: Comment, Editorial, Governance STV it is then! Today the NEC passed a motion to elect the Constituency Representatives by Single Transferable Vote. A policy passed by Open Labour a year... Read More
Editorial
 STV it is! by Open Labour | 30.06.20 | In: Editorial Open Labour welcomes the decision of the NEC to support Single Transferable Vote (STV) for future NEC elections, a form of proportional representation.... Read More
Podcast
 Open Labour Podcast – Episode 2 with Emma Hardy MP by James Gibson and Tom Hinchcliffe | 05.06.20 | In: Podcast   Open Labour’s new podcast is now available to listen to via the above link. Hosts Tom Hinchcliffe and James Gibson talk to Labour's Shadow... Read More
Editorial
 End the Silence. An Open Labour Statement. by Jake Cable. Jake is on the Open Labour National Committee and is a founder member of Socialists of Colour | 30.05.20 | In: Editorial   Open Labour would like to take this time to draw attention to the deeply distressing and unjust climate of institutional and societal racist violence... Read More
Comment
 Scientific Advice in the Coronavirus Crisis by Ben Fernando. Ben is Chair of Scientists for Labour, and a postgraduate researcher at the University of Oxford. @benfernando2 | 20.05.20 | In: Comment, News The coronavirus crisis is fundamentally scientific. Frontline care services are being provided by highly-trained and scientifically literate staff, whilst... Read More
Comment
 Northern Ireland and the British Left by Matthew Shannon. Matthew is Secretary of East Midlands Open Labour | 12.05.20 | In: Comment The first time I heard any of the candidates for the Labour leadership able to bring themselves to say “Northern Ireland” at a campaign event was Keir... Read More
Comment
 Why Open Labour? by Abi Barinski. Abi is an Open Labour member | 10.05.20 | In: Comment, General Exactly who are Open Labour?’ That is a question which has dominated much of my Twitter feed discourse in the last few months. The standard, accepted... Read More
Comment
 In Defence of ‘Soft Left’ by Kuba Stawiski. Kuba is a member of Open Labour's National Committee | 09.05.20 | In: Comment, General People don’t like it — or us. Nearly day brings an attempt to relitigate the question: “is the term ‘soft left’ appropriate for the grouping that... Read More
Comment
 UBI – the Way Forward? by Cllr Dave Wilson. Dave is a Labour councillor at Canterbury City Council and is an Open Labour member. | 17.04.20 | In: Comment, General No customers = no business. That’s the obvious lesson from 4 weeks of lockdown, as companies across the economy struggle to cope with the sudden catastrophic... Read More
Editorial
 Break the cycle: Open Labour response to the leaked internal investigation on anti-Semi... by Open Labour | 13.04.20 | In: Comment, Editorial The dossier leaked this weekend is utterly shocking in its content and requires a response which is full and considered. The initial reaction to many aspects... Read More
Editorial
 A Comment on the Leadership Result by Open Labour | 04.04.20 | In: Editorial First and foremost we would like to extend our congratulations to Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner and wish them well in the challenges that lie ahead, none... Read More
Comment
 Winter is not coming, it is here! A time for transformative change by Andrew Ryder | 18.03.20 | In: Comment, General The coronavirus we are now facing will undoubtedly have a huge social, economic and cultural impact on the world we live in, as great, if not greater, than the... Read More