Week 1 - Welcome to Inside Labour, the first of a new regular political memo from Labour Together. We’ll bring you exclusive snippets of our polling and political analysis, share lessons for Labour campaigners from across the UK and abroad, and offer our take on some of the big issues of the week.

Labour Together’s Chief Executive, Jonathan Ashworth, writes ahead of the first Labour Budget for 14 years.

This report, by Sam Freedman, sets out how empowering mayors with greater oversight of the health, education, criminal justice and other public service systems, could help Labour deliver its public services mission. JP Spencer, Director of Devolution Policy at Labour Together, writes a foreword.

Drawing on a multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) of 12,000 people commissioned by Labour Together from YouGov, our analysis of public attitudes reveals that the caucus against housebuilding are smaller than anticipated. In this note, we set out what that means for Labour.

Labour Together is delighted to announce that former Labour MP and shadow cabinet minister, Jonathan Ashworth, has been appointed Chief Executive.

A focus on serving working people is the golden thread that connects Keir Starmer’s Labour and Tony Blair’s, says Labour Together’s Director, Josh Simons.

“The cost-of-living crisis has ended.” So said Andrea Leadsom, a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care, in late March 2024. Her words may come to haunt her.

In this report, we show how far from the truth that triumphalist statement was. The cost-of-living crisis, far from over, is still painfully real for voters across Britain.

In this paper, we explore three pillars which could underpin an effective and popular migration system, showing where Labour is already addressing them and where there are further opportunities to do so.

This report, by Christopher Thornton, argues that British foreign policy can lead the world in the pursuit of peace and the resolution of conflict. Jonathan Powell, formerly chief of staff to the Prime Minister and chief negotiator during the Northern Ireland peace process, writes a foreword.

The first voting intention polling conducted internally by Labour Together finds that Labour are 18 points ahead of the Conservatives. The polling, conducted using Labour Together’s new internal polling capacity, suggests that if there were a general election tomorrow, the Conservative would take 24% of voters, Labour 42% and the Liberal Democrats 10%. Other parties, including Reform UK, would get 12% of the vote.

New analysis by Labour Together has modelled two scenarios which show there is cause for caution despite Labour’s wide lead.

Our latest report shows that a new curriculum that is “broad and bold” can address the education system failing to prepare our children for life after school.

In this report, Oli de Botton, an education policy expert and former headteacher, makes the case for curriculum reform that is “broad and bold”. Rather than simply preparing children for running the gauntlet of examinations and university applications, de Botton argues that education can, and should, prepare children to live a full life - and that we will all benefit as a result.

In the countryside and by the sea, far beyond its traditional heartlands, Labour is in the lead.

December’s edition of our regular newsletter updates you on everything we’ve been up to over the past month.

In this paper, Hamish Falconer - a Labour Together Policy Fellow, former diplomat and Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Lincoln - draws together industrial strategy and diplomacy, which have traditionally occupied separate domains within government. The convergence of domestic and foreign policy is perhaps the central policy trend of the past decade. Here, Falconer shows how Labour could place national security at the heart of its wider economic agenda.

New polling, conducted by YouGov on behalf of Labour Together, shows decisively that the Labour membership supports the Party’s new policy position on sex and gender based rights.

November’s edition of our regular newsletter updates you on everything we’ve been up to over the past month.

New polling conducted just before the Supreme Court ruling on the Government’s Rwanda policy which compared public attitudes to both Labour and Conservative immigration and asylum policies.

For too long, Britain has been caught in a doom loop. Low investment has caused low productivity, which has fed into stagnating growth and flat productivity. In this paper, we chart the long story of underinvestment, which is a regional as much as a national story, and its devastating impact on Britain. In its place, we argue for targeted public and private investment to reverse that, and, in so doing, build a new and better Britain.