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Emma Burnell
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· Jul 25
Emma Burnell announced as new LabourList Editor - LabourList
LabourList is delighted to announce that Emma Burnell has been appointed as the new Editor of the leading media and events platform for all things Labour.
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I am deeply honoured and incredibly excited to be announced as the new Editor of @labourlist.bsky.social.
I have been a reader, contributor and fan of the site since it started. It's a vital place to discuss, explore and examine all things Labour.
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I have been a reader, contributor and fan of the site since it started. It's a vital place to discuss, explore and examine all things Labour.
labourlist.org/2025/07/new-...
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Labour MPs, unions and think tanks have broadly welcomed the Chancellor’s Budget - but hit out at the OBR’s “unacceptable” leak
A lot done… a lot more to do? MPs, unions and think tanks react to Budget – LabourList
Labour MPs, unions and think tanks have broadly welcomed the Chancellor’s Budget - but hit out at the OBR’s “unacceptable” leak. Rachel Reeves received significant…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Labour MPs, unions and think tanks have broadly welcomed the Chancellor’s Budget - but hit out at the OBR’s “unacceptable” leak
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If you're the poor sod at the OBR who might find themselves with a bit more time on their hands next week don't worry! You can still be a winner at the LabourList Xmas pub quiz!
LabourList Christmas Pub Quiz
It’s time to sleigh the Labour trivia season! Join LabourList for an evening of festive fun and political puzzlers.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If you're the poor sod at the OBR who might find themselves with a bit more time on their hands next week don't worry! You can still be a winner at the LabourList Xmas pub quiz!
I was on the Daily Politics talking all things budget today. Here’s a clip!
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was on the Daily Politics talking all things budget today. Here’s a clip!
In his denial Farage sounded a lot like a traditional politician. It might, sadly, be this that does him more damage than the allegations.
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
In his denial Farage sounded a lot like a traditional politician. It might, sadly, be this that does him more damage than the allegations.
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I think this sums up Blue Labour to a tee: someone experiences, or shares a human tragedy, and you feel sad for them, but equally it doesn’t give them license to tear up 600 years of information about what drives prosperity and replace it with saying the word “relational” a lot.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I think this sums up Blue Labour to a tee: someone experiences, or shares a human tragedy, and you feel sad for them, but equally it doesn’t give them license to tear up 600 years of information about what drives prosperity and replace it with saying the word “relational” a lot.
I’ve been in my flat 12 years this week. I moved in in 2013 which at the time felt like the worst year of my life.
But without 2013 I would not now be happier then I have ever ever been.
That started here in this flat that I love every bit as much today as the day I moved in.
But without 2013 I would not now be happier then I have ever ever been.
That started here in this flat that I love every bit as much today as the day I moved in.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’ve been in my flat 12 years this week. I moved in in 2013 which at the time felt like the worst year of my life.
But without 2013 I would not now be happier then I have ever ever been.
That started here in this flat that I love every bit as much today as the day I moved in.
But without 2013 I would not now be happier then I have ever ever been.
That started here in this flat that I love every bit as much today as the day I moved in.
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Keir Starmer would lose a head-to-head contest against Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband, exclusive polling for LabourList by Survation reveals
Starmer would lose leadership contest to Streeting, Rayner, Burnham and Miliband – LabourList
Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting would all win a head-to-head leadership contest against Keir Starmer, exclusive polling of Labour members reveals.…
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November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Keir Starmer would lose a head-to-head contest against Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband, exclusive polling for LabourList by Survation reveals
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one cannot have both a cat and 1000 jigsaw pieces.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one cannot have both a cat and 1000 jigsaw pieces.
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“We all know why,” says Matt Goodwin.
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“We all know why,” says Matt Goodwin.
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
And we do! It’s because the methodology for estimating emigration changed! I’m sure that’s what Matt is getting at here, right?
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Shabana Mahmood is walking a tightrope: can Labour be both compassionate and tough on immigration? Emma Burnell how ‘for the many’ is being tested by hard security politics
‘The politics of security – when ‘for the many’ politics becomes uncomfortable for Labour’ – LabourList
I will never forget something a Labour voter in a very safe Tory seat told me once soon after the 1997 election. He said that…
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November 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Shabana Mahmood is walking a tightrope: can Labour be both compassionate and tough on immigration? Emma Burnell how ‘for the many’ is being tested by hard security politics
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November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I found this so interesting. We talk about polling results endlessly but rarely discuss how we ask the questions. This salience vs importance question is fascinating.
As immigration dominates the brief this morning, here’s my two cents on the salience vs. the importance of the issue:
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(Full report linked below - Many thanks to @emmaburnell.bsky.social!!)
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(Full report linked below - Many thanks to @emmaburnell.bsky.social!!)
'Bread, circuses, and polling errors: Are we truly measuring what matters?' - LabourList
Pollsters who ask questions that add nuance are rewarded with a richer look at the public’s outlook argues Labour Together's Calum Weir.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I found this so interesting. We talk about polling results endlessly but rarely discuss how we ask the questions. This salience vs importance question is fascinating.
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As immigration dominates the brief this morning, here’s my two cents on the salience vs. the importance of the issue:
labourlist.org/2025/11/immi...
(Full report linked below - Many thanks to @emmaburnell.bsky.social!!)
labourlist.org/2025/11/immi...
(Full report linked below - Many thanks to @emmaburnell.bsky.social!!)
'Bread, circuses, and polling errors: Are we truly measuring what matters?' - LabourList
Pollsters who ask questions that add nuance are rewarded with a richer look at the public’s outlook argues Labour Together's Calum Weir.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
As immigration dominates the brief this morning, here’s my two cents on the salience vs. the importance of the issue:
labourlist.org/2025/11/immi...
(Full report linked below - Many thanks to @emmaburnell.bsky.social!!)
labourlist.org/2025/11/immi...
(Full report linked below - Many thanks to @emmaburnell.bsky.social!!)
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🌹 📣 GOOD NEWS! It's your weekly round up of Labour's legislative achievements!
Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories – LabourList
The drama in Westminster this week has been difficult to escape. But beneath the noise, the machinery of government trundles on, and there are plenty…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🌹 📣 GOOD NEWS! It's your weekly round up of Labour's legislative achievements!
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🎶 “O come all ye Labour faithful… to the LabourList pub quiz” 🎶
Celebrate the season with a night of Labour trivia, festive cheer, and friendly competition.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
Celebrate the season with a night of Labour trivia, festive cheer, and friendly competition.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
LabourList Christmas Pub Quiz
It’s time to sleigh the Labour trivia season! Join LabourList for an evening of festive fun and political puzzlers.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🎶 “O come all ye Labour faithful… to the LabourList pub quiz” 🎶
Celebrate the season with a night of Labour trivia, festive cheer, and friendly competition.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
Celebrate the season with a night of Labour trivia, festive cheer, and friendly competition.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1921363292...
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Our Editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the extraordinary mess of the last 24 hours.
Briefing Encounters – LabourList
This is an adapted version of my analysis from the LabourList email this morning. To receive our email every weekday morning please subscribe here. Last…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Our Editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social on the extraordinary mess of the last 24 hours.
Along with a million other questions I’m asking this morning I am wondering how Kemi Badenoch will manage to miss this open goal at PMQs. It won’t be easy, but if anyone can do it, she can do it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Along with a million other questions I’m asking this morning I am wondering how Kemi Badenoch will manage to miss this open goal at PMQs. It won’t be easy, but if anyone can do it, she can do it.
Can’t believe it’s been nine years since he died. So incredibly grateful I got to see him live.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Can’t believe it’s been nine years since he died. So incredibly grateful I got to see him live.
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Everyone is a little bit right... and a little bit wrong. Our editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social on what the BBC crisis teaches us about the political moment we're in.
‘The BBC crisis and our half-right, half-wrong politics’ – LabourList
The BBC is in crisis - again. This is not a piece reporting on what has happened. You can't move for those today. Here's the…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Everyone is a little bit right... and a little bit wrong. Our editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social on what the BBC crisis teaches us about the political moment we're in.
The BBC story is one of the clearest examples I have ever seen of the fact that several - even superficially contradictory - things can be true at once.
The response to the BBC story is one if the clearest examples of how bad at understanding that we all are.
The response to the BBC story is one if the clearest examples of how bad at understanding that we all are.
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The BBC story is one of the clearest examples I have ever seen of the fact that several - even superficially contradictory - things can be true at once.
The response to the BBC story is one if the clearest examples of how bad at understanding that we all are.
The response to the BBC story is one if the clearest examples of how bad at understanding that we all are.
Really pleased with this new weekly column. We don’t pull our punches at LabourList when we think Labour get thinks wrong. We shouldn’t hold back about what they get right too.
🌹 Here are seven exciting breakthroughs and announcements the government made this week that you can use - whether you're on the doorstep, sparring on Twitter or debating in the pub
Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories – LabourList
It was a busy week for the Labour government. While the papers were awash with Budget speculation, there was plenty of tangible progress towards renewing…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Really pleased with this new weekly column. We don’t pull our punches at LabourList when we think Labour get thinks wrong. We shouldn’t hold back about what they get right too.
Paul McCartney, Emma Thompson, David Morrissey, Alison Moyet, Hugh Laurie, Mark Charnock, someone I’ve never heard of from YouTube, Judi Dench, Greg Rutherford, Billie Piper.
Sarah Lancashire, Bob Mortimer, Bradley Walsh, Ruth Jones, Thomas Turgoose, Lily Allen
Stab at a series 2 #celebritytraitors line up: Krishnan Guru Murthy / Marian Keyes / Charlie Higson / James Blunt / Jill Scott / CMAT / Stacey Solomon (2/2)
Actually, swap Blunt for Neil Tennant
Actually, swap Blunt for Neil Tennant
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Paul McCartney, Emma Thompson, David Morrissey, Alison Moyet, Hugh Laurie, Mark Charnock, someone I’ve never heard of from YouTube, Judi Dench, Greg Rutherford, Billie Piper.
I really need to go to bed but I am so full of post-Traitors adrenaline.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I really need to go to bed but I am so full of post-Traitors adrenaline.
God I wish everyone I’ve screwed over had been as nice about it as Nick & David.
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
God I wish everyone I’ve screwed over had been as nice about it as Nick & David.