Ideas, enterprise and public service

Optimism Is Britain’s Greatest Competitive Advantage

Our greatest resource is not what lies beneath our soil. It is the talent, creativity and resilience of our people.

Business and Trade Unions Succeed Together

Britain’s future will not be built by choosing between employers and workers, but by helping both prosper.

Politics Still Matters

Why hope, community and participation remain the foundations of a stronger Britain.

Why Ideas Matter

The strongest political movements are those prepared to listen, learn and evolve. That is why Labour Home was created.

Why Labour Must Be the Natural Home of Small Business

Britain’s future prosperity depends on backing entrepreneurs, family businesses and employers who create jobs, opportunity and stronger communities.

Labour has the ear of small business – let’s prove we can deliver

Keir Starmer needs to give SMEs a strong offer on skills, business rates and net zero. By Ibrahim Dogus Source: New Statesman When I founded the SME4Labour campaign five...

Writing in LabourList: Labour is back in business

LabourList · 23 October 2021 For me, the best line of Labour’s 2021 conference was Keir Starmer’s declaration that Labour is back in business. In a piece for...

Here are the policies needed to help the SME community get back on its feet

Keir Starmer has picked apart the government’s erratic handling of the coronavirus crisis. The Labour leader has rightly shone a light on ministers’ stop-start approach to lockdowns, confused...

Labour’s path back to power: strength in breadth, pride, positivity and principles

Labour’s path back to power may be rocky, but the recent by-election result in Batley and Spen offers lessons for how it can be achieved. Congratulations must go...

Labour can and will develop the big policies needed to save our high streets

The high street is on a precipice. We must listen to traders, speak up for them and support this vital part of British life. As Usdaw general secretary...

Labour campaigners are back on the doorstep – and making up for lost time

Getting back on the doorstep is just the first step in reconnecting with voters. We are making up for lost time. Labour campaigners and candidates are back on...

Wherever you live and whatever you buy, support Small Business Saturday

Is your favourite coffee shop still operating from morning until night? Has your hairdresser or barber reopened its doors after the second lockdown? These stark questions have run...

We need an honest conversation about Transport for London

‘A chaotic right-wing premier picks a fight with a regional politician in order to distract from his own failings amid the pandemic.’ If that sounds a depressingly familiar...

The people of Beirut need our help, and quickly

It was an early Tuesday evening when a massive explosion rocked Beirut, killing at least 180 people and injuring more than 6,000. An estimated 300,000 have been left...

A menu of options to keep our restaurants alive

Ibrahim DogusIbrahim Dogus is a London Councillor. You all know the image: a politician enjoying a pint or a meal at their local restaurant. There are handshakes all...

Local democracy is where politics becomes personal

Opportunity, enterprise and optimism

Turning the tide: a new beginning for Britain

Once costs rise, they rarely come down

Sudan’s forgotten war

Makerfield’s message

The three smalls that will decide Britain’s future

Stop the Noise: a national campaign for quieter communities

SME4Labour backs Lucy Powell for deputy leader