Johnson thinks he has a winning formula – an interventionist, left of centre approach to the economy and a tough, right of centre approach to law and order, immigration and culture wars.

"There are many reasons why our Party should continue to fully support First-Past-The-Post, and reject the entreaties of those pressing for Proportional Representation. In the North West in the Euros, we had a very clear lesson as to the damage PR does to Labour. Under FPTP we had 10 out of 10 MEPs. Under PR we went down to only two MEPs and a far right/neo fascist was elected MEP. I joined the Labour Party because I believe it offers the best way forward for the mass of the people. That obviously means winning the maximum number of seats,not losing seats!" CLPD strongly believes that Annual Conference must endorse First-Past-The-Post. Failure to do this will give a huge boost to the Far Right, to the discredited Lib Dems and to the non-socialist Greens.

"Belief in the sanctity of the rule of law and civil liberties runs across...parts of the Labour left...but the supposed mainstream tends to either scoff at such ideas or meekly look the other way."

"The main progressive political party in this country is pandering to the worst kind of regressive politics. The failures we see notched up daily by Starmer's team aren't just political - they are moral"

"It is rare for an opposition leader to shoot up like a firework and tumble down like a stick."

"Jeremy Corbyn hugely motivated the under 30s to vote. In 2017 we achieved the largest swing to Labour since 1945. Sadly the present leadership seems to motivate very few. And the latest talk of building party unity is cheap. Unity requires the whip being restored to Jeremy Corbyn."

"The Labour Party's strategists will need to learn from Corbynism's strengths, rather than ignoring them and insisting it had only weaknesses."

"The pledge to keep Labour's radical policies of 2017 and 2019 binned, replaced by policies made up on the hoof, without reference to Conference or the National Policy Forum....Reports suggest industrial-scale cheating has returned to local government selections"

"[Labour's] combination of top-down leadership and taking leftwing voters for granted is reminiscent of the party under Neil Kinnock."

"For a long time much of the country hasn't resembled tabloid England. At a Jeremy Corbyn rally, you saw a different England to the one idealised by the tabloids."

"Suspending members without explanation is no way to treat people who give everything to our party."

"When you're elected and you're in that seat in Westminster, you take a position, you don't abstain. You take part in the match. You're the opposition, don't sit in the stand. They sat in the stand whilst the home team had a clear run."

“To be honest, removing the whip from well regarded Tory MPs that have served their party for years amounts to Johnson and Cummings destroying their own party. That will not end well.”

"During the 1990s, 'New Labour' accepted the neoliberal argument that the Unions had been too strong in the post-war decades. That has led directly to todays precarious so-called 'Labour Market', with its ever expanding bogus self-employment. We need a united Trade Union Movement committed to a campaign for collective bargaining legislation."

"Increasingly our MPs are drawn from professional backgrounds - now only some 3% are from manual occupational backgrounds (in 1951 this was 37%). And yet at least 30% of employees are in jobs classed as manual. Our Party and the unions must address this glaring disparity."

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."

"It's an abuse of members' money. It's as though a huge sign has been put up outside the Labour Party with 'Queue here with your writ and get your payment over there'"

"I'll tell you what happens with meaningless promises. You start with a bunch of abstract nouns. They are then pickled into a rigid centrist dogma - a code, irrelevant to the needs of one of the most unequal boroughs in Britain. And you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council - Tower Hamlets - threatening to sack its entire workforce"

"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned."

"In the 1980s Tory minister Norman Tebbit organised against craft unionism, seeking to replace collectivism with individualism. He praised the corrupt practice known as lump Labour and promoted what then became bogus self-employment. Crucially, this was accepted in the electrical contracting industry by the EETPU leadership. Bogus self-employment was then gradually forced on other trades in building and maintenance. The neoliberal onslaught since the 1980s has totally transformed British trade unionism".