A New Agenda: Labour and democracy

Article

This essay is a contribution to the debate about the Left's future. It argues that the circumstances that have sustained Labour for so long are evaporating and that the Government requires radical renewal to win a fourth term. And it suggests a starting point for that long and difficult process.

This essay is a contribution to the debate about the Left's future. It argues that the circumstances that have sustained Labour for so long are evaporating and that the Government requires radical renewal to win a fourth term.

Michael Wills argues that, as a starting point for this process, a programme of reform needs to be developed driven not by the political class seen as responsible for undermining faith in our constitutional arrangements but by the people who are served by such arrangements.

He suggests the time may be coming for an elected, one-off, fixed term constitutional convention to heal the fractures in our politics.

Related items

  1. A female carer pushes an older female wheelchair user along a path in a residential area on a sunny day

    Who will care?: How can we meet the scale of the care challenge?

    Progressives need to see a better future for care: as a functioning, reliable and affordable public service.
  2. Entrance sign at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office in Westminster

    Reset: Building modern partnerships with the countries of the global south

    The UK's relationships with many countries of the ‘global south’ are in a poor state.
  3. Doctor with patient for consultation, medical advice or procedure at clinic

    Taken to heart: Inequalities in heart disease in Scotland

    More than 7.6 million people across the UK live with cardiovascular disease (CVD), around twice as many as live with Alzheimer’s disease and cancer combined.