2017

16th December 2017, Mail Online, Fears grow over hard-left Momentum fanatics taking control of Labour through ‘intimidation, thuggery and infiltration’

29th November 2017, Conservative Home, EXCLUSIVE: Draft new Conservative party constitution revealed – including further candidate selection centralisation

28th November 2017, Labour List,  Luke Akehurst: We have nothing to lose – this is how we can beat Momentum

16th November 2017, Mainly macro blog: The Brexit Revolution and its source of power

2nd November 2017, Labour List: Exclusive: Corbyn allies agree swift timetable for party democracy review

17th October 2017, Quartz: The Communist App store: China’s endless apps for tracking, organizing and motivating party members

16th October 2017, Conservative Home: Alexander Temerko: The Conservative party needs reform from top to bottom

5th October 2017, Conservative Home: The hollow hall

4th October 2017, BuzzFeed: The Conservatives’ social media game is absolutely terrible

3rd October 2017, New Statesman: How Jeremy Corbyn invaded Conservative party conference

1st October 2017, Conservative Home: The Pickles review. As expected, he doesn’t rock the boat. But he gives it a nudge (and then some).

1st October 2017, Conservative Home: My general review is a blueprint for a stronger party

30th September 2017, The Times: Tories look for an injection of young blue blood to revive the party (pdf)

29th September 2017, The Independent: Momentum enters ‘phase two’ of its project at the World Transformed Festival

28th September 2017, Vox: A massive new study reviews the evidence on whether campaigning works. The answer’s bleak.

27th September 2017, Huffington Post: Momentum celebrates Jeremy Corbyn’s election surprise and a Labour party transformed

26th September 2017, The Times: Generational divide will split cult of Corbyn (pdf)

25th September 2017, The Independent: At Momentum’s festival this weekend, I realized why Jeremy Corbyn is going to win the next general election

25th September 2017, New Statesman: Jeremy Corbyn’s rock star’s welcome showed his strength – but something was missing

25th September 2017, Politico: Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to tighten grip on Labour

24th September 2017, The Guardian: Momentum building in Brighton as grassroots group goes mainstream

22nd September 2017, The Guardian: The inside story of Labour’s election shock

21th September 2017, Labour List: Labour’s democracy review, leadership elections and the 76 target seats – Alice Perry’s latest NEC report

20th September 2017, Labour List: Comradely Scottish leadership debate reserves anger for the nationalists

20th September 2017, Huffington Post: The Waugh Zone – Left Hook (point 3)

19th September 2017, Stumbling and Mumbling blog: Corbyn’s success: centrists failure

Little Atoms blog: This is either the beginning of Labour or its end

15th September 2017, The Guardian: Labour’s members saved the party. Now give them the power they deserve

15th September 2017, The Guardian: Tory review calls for new youth wing to counter Corbyn’s appeal

11th September 2017, New Statesman: The short life and brutal death of Activate, the Tory Momentum

11th September 2017, Huffington Post: Corbyn boost as Momentum-backed candidates elected to conference arrangements committee

10th September 2017, Mark Pack blog: Which political party’s members are most willing to deliver leaflets?

9th September 2017, Mark Pack blog: How leaflets (and canvassing) raise turnout in British elections

8th September 2017, New Statesman: The unfinished revolution: can Corbynism as a force survive its creator?

6th September 2017, Conservative Home: Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part two. How and why the ground campaign failed

5th September 2017, Labour List: Shadow cabinet ministers set to make way for activists at party conference

31st August 2017, The Telegraph: Labour rakes in the party fees as Tory membership tumbles (pdf)

29th August 2017, The Guardian: Activate: Tories mimic Momentum with grassroots campaign

16th August 2017, Labour List: Owen Jones to team up with Momentum in push to unseat top Tories

31st July 2017, Huffington Post: Claudia Webbe: Labour MPs who ‘forgot the real world’ realize they owe Jeremy Corbyn their job

28th July 2017, The Guardian: Momentum video parodies older voters discussing Corbyn’s policies

19th July 2017, Labour List: We mustn’t hang about: party to pick 75 candidates for key marginal seats this year

18th July 2017, The Guardian: What the Tories don’t understand about Momentum

17th July 2017, The Times: The Tories need their own version of Momentum (pdf )

16th July 2017, The Guardian: Jon Lansman: ‘To keep Labour’s new members engaged, we must give them power’

13th July 2017, The Times: Recruit members or we’ll fine you, Shinzo Abe’s party tells MPs (pdf)

5th July 2017, NewStatesman: ‘Theresa May isn’t cool’: do the Tories need their own Momentum?

3rd July 2017, Labour List: Will they, won’t they: that vexed question of deselection raises its ugly head again

3rd July 2017, Conservative Home: Simon Marcus: The Conservatives needs a grassroots army to match Labour’s

1st July 2017, Huffington Post: For Jeremy Corbyn’s right-hand man Ian Lavery, control of the Labour party is just the beginning

30th June 2017, Huffington Post: Momentum activists take control of local Labour parties ahead of Brighton conference

30th June 2017, Huffington Post: Labour Chairman Ian Lavery warns party shake-up will include MP reselection

26th June 2017, The Guardian: Glastonbury is more evidence: Corbyn’s appeal crosses classes

24th June 2017, Mark Pack blog: Lib Dem leadership survey results: Liberal Democrat Newswire #101

22nd June 2017, The Guardian: Momentum helped me win my seat: now Labour must harness its spirit

20th June 2017, Huffington Post: Jeremy Corbyn allies plan ‘purge’ of Labour HQ in bid to stamp his authority on party

15th June 2017, BBC News: Young deeply pessimistic about social mobility, survey says

15th June 2017, The Times: The ‘revenge of the young’ election is a wake-up call for the government (pdf)

14th June 2017, NewStatesman: ‘Almost every constituency we targeted, we won’: The inside story of Labour’s ground game.

13th June 2017, The Conversation: Labour’s resurgence must in part be due to its bold membership experiment

12th June 2017, Pop Politics Aus: Strange bedfellows? The ideological migration of UKIP voters to Labour in the 2017 general election

6th June 2017, BuzzFeed News: Labour centrist have a problem: Jeremy Corbyn is doing too well

16th May 2017, NewStatesman: Armchair activists or mass mobilisers? How Momentum is shaping Labour’s campaign

19th May 2017, Labour List: Whatever the result on June 8th, simply growing the membership is not the answer

17th May 2017, Tom’s curiosity shop: Why income inequality implications of May and Corbyn governments may well be similar

9th May 2017, The Times: It’s time for Labour moderates to jump ship (pdf)

5th May 2017, NewStatesman: What do general election selection battles reveal about Jeremy Corbyn’s legacy

1st May 2017, Conservative Home: John Strafford: Conservatives must not let the polls lull them into complacency

26th April 2017, The Conversation: Corbynism might not actually end – even if Labour loses the election

24th April 2017, Mark Pack blog: VIDEO: What do campaigners actually get up to in an election?

21st April 2017, The Guardian: Labour takes to the streets and social media to reach voters

24th March 2017, The Staggers – NewStatesman: Why isn’t Labour putting forward Corbynite candidates?

24th March 2017, Huffington Post: Momentum Organiser tells Labour MPs not to block party members from picking Jeremy Corbyn’s successor

23rd March 2017, NewStatesman: Losing Momentum: how Jeremy Corbyn’s support group ran out of steam

23rd March 2017, The Guardian: The inside story of the Tory election scandal

20th March 2017, Labour List: The Momentum “plot” is only about returning power to the members

4th March 2017, The Guardian: Momentum plans relaunch to end factional infighting

26th February 2017, Labour List: Momentum: Copeland was a devastating result but we must renew Labour and step up fight against austerity and the far-right

16th February 2017, NewStatesman: Is Jeremy Corbyn losing his supporters after voting for Brexit?

4th February 2017, Reaction: Can the Labour party be saved when Labour has changed so much?

23rd January 2017, Labour List: Labour Representation Committee takes aim at “undemocratic” Momentum over controversial member reforms

23rd January 2017, Ipsos Mori: Trade Unions still seen as essential to protecting workers’ rights but rise in number seeing them as having too much power

17th January 2017, Ipsos Mori: Global study shows potential for more political uncertainty ahead

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