Autumn 2005: Party Futures
Having lost 200,000 members in the last five years, the Labour Party must rebuild its grassroots if it is to be in shape to fight the next General Election, some of the party's most influential MPs, trade unionists and think-tankers argue in the Fabian Review Labour Party Conference special issue, published on Tuesday September 20 2005.

  

Let's get this party restarted

The Fabian Review issue begins a new programme of Fabian activity on party reform.

  • Sunder Katwala and Richard Brooks on how mutual mistrust and 'the echoes of old battles of the 1980s' risk distorting the debate about future reform
  • Ed Miliband says Labour needs a mission to reach out
  • Maggie Jones assesses the lessons of partnership in power

  

Environment: hotting up

Tom Burke says that it's now or never for the politics of climate change.

Remembering Robin Cook

Meg Russell, Tony Wright MP, Douglas Alexander MP and other leading Fabians pay tribute.

Tory story

Leading progressive thinker Andrew Gamble on why the right may return to life, and how the next Conservative leader might modernise the party.

"A local vicar in my constituency raised with me the shared problem of recruitment, suggesting 'I am offering a personal relationship with god – what are you offering?' We must show people we have a mission worth supporting"

—Ed Miliband, Fabian Review, Autumn 2005

"Are we too afraid to disagree? Labour's turbulent history meant a lot of emphasis was placed on producing a more consensual and collegiate approach. But disagreement and debate are the very stuff of politics."

—Sunder Katwala and Richard Brooks, Fabian Review, Autumn 2005

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