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Its recent conference reignited debates about whether or not Labour can be transformed. Nick Clark says Labour can change—but its focus on parliament limits its potential

The Labour Party expelled a prominent Israeli anti-Zionist academic and campaigner last week, citing antisemitism.

Labour councils and Labour’s leadership seem to be on opposite sides of the fight for better housing.

Also: Callous Grenfell estate bosses finally get the boot

Jeremy Corbyn was probably right to claim that Labour has become the “political mainstream” under his left wing leadership.

In a high point of his speech to Labour conference last month, Jeremy Corbyn affirmed his solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Chants of, “Tories out—Corbyn in” rang out in Manchester today, Sunday. Tens of thousands of protesters joined the People’s Assembly demonstration and festival outside the Tory party conference.

It’s not a paranoid fantasy to argue that parts of the establishment want to derail the left wing Labour leadership’s plans.

There is no doubt that the left were in the driving seat at Brighton and exuded a confidence and assurance born from the unexpectedly favourable election result in June and the subsequent turmoil and implosion of their Tory opponents. It was particularly refreshing that socialist ideas were common currency and openly debated. What a change...

Jeremy Corbyn has said the Labour Party is a “government in waiting”—and that under his leadership it will replace a “failed and broken system”.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell told a fringe meeting that a radical left Labour government would be ready to face attempts to undermine it by bankers and big businesses.

For the first time since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader, the left was in complete control of Labour’s conference.