If Labour wants to win again it needs a bold vision for the future

After another poor set of election results, what's next for the party?

Good morning members, today we hear from a local charity worker and Labour party activist on what the party needs to do to win again

By Rachel McGrath

Back in the mid 1990s I was a young Labour student at university campaigning and supporting the heralding in of New Labour. I stayed up to watch the landslide general election in 1997 whilst on holiday in a caravan in Land’s End in Cornwall. After 18 years of Tory rule, Labour was finally in power again.

During that time it raised hundreds of thousands of children and pensioners out of poverty, introduced a minimum wage into law, introduced the Human Rights Act, created thousands of Sure Start Centres to support families, helped build peace in Northern Ireland and established the Disability Rights Commission to name a few of its formidable achievements. But then there was the Iraq War, obsession with spin and media and a fawning over big business that enabled a tax-haven culture to continue to be nurtured at the expense of social justice.