By Andrew Godfrey-Collins. Ahead of last year’s Pride, I wrote for In Common about the current Labour government’s frankly abysmal LGBT+ record. Under then Prime Minister Keir Starmer, it had become the first government since Margaret Thatcher’s to roll back progress for LGBT+ people. Specifically, it was in the...
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Opinion: Will a new Prime Minister bring the change that people in Southampton voted for?
By Cllr. Matt Renyard, Southampton City Green Group Leader and Ward Councillor for Coxford. At the May 2026 local elections, the message was clear – the majority of you wanted change. You wanted leaders who would genuinely tackle the growing gap between your wages and the cost of living, the squeeze...
Reader’s letter: Starmer’s speech – a missed opportunity to address the nation
By Charlotte Ndupuechi. Keir Starmer’s resignation speech left me disappointed, not because he chose to step down—we all knew that was only a matter of time—but because he seemed unwilling to acknowledge how he arrived at this point. During his leadership campaign, Starmer pledged to abolish tuition fees, supported...
Opinion: The weaponisation of proportional representation
By Mabel Wellman. Recently, I’ve been seeing an increasing number of articles in newspapers about proportional representation. The main content of such articles will sound very familiar to people who have either campaigned against First Past The Post (FPTP) voting before; considered “strategically voting” to make sure their vote...