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Is the Green party really Britain’s most democratic party?
The Greens like to present themselves as more democratic than their rivals. Look past conference and the picture is far messier, says Andrew Hedges.
Brighton or bust: can the Greens stay radical and still grow up?
A resurgent Labour, a record membership and their leader fighting Keir Starmer’s old seat. This weekend will test whether the Greens can modernise without losing their edge.
Root & Branch brings its left organising platform to Green conference
The cross-party platform wants socialists split across the Greens, Your Party, Labour and the unions to stop relying on WhatsApp groups and organise in one place. It will be at stand 19 in Brighton from Friday.
“Support doesn’t mean subservience” – Labour left backs Burnham but vows to hold him to account
Socialist Campaign Group MPs and union leaders hailed the prime minister’s conference speech as a win for the left – but warned his words on ending neoliberalism must now become action.
Burnham promises to break with 40 years of failure. Now he has to mean it
The prime minister gave the left much of what it wanted to hear in Liverpool. Moving words are the easy part – taking on the vested interests is where it gets hard.
Burnham’s national care service is the right idea, so why wait?
Daniel Emmett-Gulliver is no fan of the prime minister. But he says a national care service could be the NHS of our time, if Burnham has the courage to deliver it.
Young people hand CVs to a cardboard Burnham in climate jobs protest
With a million young people out of work, education or training, campaigners want the new prime minister to put them to work on the climate crisis.
Labour conference preview: what to watch for in Liverpool
From Andy Burnham’s first leader’s speech to a fringe fight over rent controls he used to champion himself, here’s what actually matters at Labour’s conference this week.
What’s left of Burnham’s promise?
Three months into his premiership, Andy Burnham’s cost-of-living wins amount to a few pounds a week – while the policy he once championed loudest, rent controls, has been ruled out by his own government. The party’s Liverpool conference is where that gap gets harder to ignore.