The arrogant view that young people don’t count because they don’t vote has thankfully been smashed for ever. John McDonnell Read Quote
Meeting the challenges of the future requires a state that can think and act strategically. John McDonnell Read Quote
The U.K. needs to diversify – to become the technological as well as the financial centre of Europe. John McDonnell Read Quote
Conservatives claim they are ‘one nation’ Tories when they have actually been a government for the 1% who have undermined our economic interests through their greed. John McDonnell Read Quote
If we as a party are serious about devolution, then we must respect councils and nations enough to determine their own agenda. John McDonnell Read Quote
When I was a GLC councillor, we won and held London as Labour was imploding nationally – running popular campaigns against the Thatcher Government and fighting on our own agenda. John McDonnell Read Quote
Parties don’t lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat. John McDonnell Read Quote
Since John Smith’s death and the Blair/Brown takeover in 1994, party members have watched the way in which an elite leadership group has formed in the Labour party, cutting itself off from the party’s traditions, values and norms of behaviour. John McDonnell Read Quote
