UK

If Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield byelection and then replaces Keir Starmer as Labour leader, what will it mean for the left? Andrew Hedges considers the issues.

Tax campaigner and emeritus professor of accounting at Sheffield University Management School, Richard J Murphy, takes a look at Andy Burnham’s economic proposals and concludes that, rather than offering genuine economic change, they look like a softer version of the same old failed system.

The Bee Network, Greater Manchester’s new joined up travel network, has been widely hailed as the flagship policy of Andy Burnham’s mayoralty in Manchester. However, as Anita Patel writes, it’s not necessarily all that it’s cracked up to be.

In the final article in our series on Taking on Reform for The Left Lane, Brian Green argues that, with a class-based approach to politics, Farage and his party can be exposed and defeated.

In the fifth article in our series on Reform and how to defeat them, Fred Bayer reports from Scotland on the election results there and what they mean for politics and the left.

The new BBC director general Matt Brittin starts work this week. Below, Granville Williams reviews a new book which contains 24 letters of advice to the BBC’s new man at the top.

The rise in support for Reform is a worrying development and needs to be addressed. In this fourth article in a series for The Left Lane, Fiona Ranson addresses some of the key factors that have led to the electoral growth of Reform and what needs to be done to defeat them.

In the third article in our series on Reform and how to defeat them, newly-elected Newcastle city councillor Jamie Driscoll explains how the Greens won a seat in the working-class ward of Walker in the city.

In the second article in our series on Reform and how to defeat them, former trade union leader John McInally calls for a return to class politics to push back the right.