Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Water is good test of a bigger question for this Government: when continuity becomes the greater risk than rupture, are we prepared to face it? The great promise at the heart of this Government’s project is to give people and places back the power and agency they rightly feel they have lost. 1/2 100
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Whether Burnham's centre can hold political and economic strategy together is the whole ballgame. @louisehaighmp.bsky.social is right to call for a 'beefed up' economic function in No.10, while @futuregovforum.bsky.social's redesign puts strategy at its heart. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...politicshome.comForget Burnham's pick for chancellor – No 10's grip on strategy will be far more importantWho Andy Burnham will send to the Treasury has become the consuming question of Westminster’s frenzied speculation. 000
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026An Honest Day and Manchesterism have been cast as two competing political and economic visions for the country. Matt Lawrence of @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and I have written in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social saying the future will be shaped by both: www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...newstatesman.comTwo visions for Labour's futureLabour is being told to pick a side in a battle of economic arguments. We say the future will be built from both 031
Reposted by Mark McVitieLabour Growth Group @labourgrowth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This week we released An Honest Day - written by @markmcvitie.bsky.social with @chriscurtis94.bsky.social - to outline a new economic settlement for Britain. Written about today in @theguardian.com by both @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social and Andy Beckett. Read it in full - www.labourgrowth.co.uk 132
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 27/02/2026We can spend the next days and weeks gnashing our teeth and running in circles, or we can get serious about what voters are actually telling us. Let’s get to work. 000
Reposted by Mark McVitieJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 13/02/2026For this weekend’s read, I’ve take a step back from the leadership drama to ask - what would a change actually look like? Many MPs are deeply dissatisfied with the government‘s record. What’s the alternative - and who are the Labour factions who will shape it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLeft or right, Keir? Labour factions jostle for influence in post-McSweeney No 10Soft left senses chance to push Starmer into progressive pivot, but leftward turn would be fiercely resisted by some 10356
Reposted by Mark McVitieBlue Labour @blue-labour.bsky.social · 06/02/2026“No wonder the public are sick of us all." Superb from @markmcvitie.bsky.social on Peter Mandelson and the moral decay of Westminster. 101
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Mandelson isn’t an aberration, but the relational logic of the machine working as intended. Moral conviction has been devalued in both our people and our arguments. This is the inevitable result. We must start saying what for too long we have been ready to think. open.substack.com/pub/futureof...open.substack.comThe Things We Think and Do Not SayWhat Mandelson tells us about the death of the old politics 001
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026@pollybillington.bsky.social Just spoken powerfully in HoC to something that I've felt deeply throughout my years working in and around politics - far, far too often absolute lack of character or moral deficiency is excused in the name of either alleged talent or personal loyalty. 010
Reposted by Mark McVitieLabour Growth Group @labourgrowth.bsky.social · 20/02/2025"The status quo is economically and morally bankrupt. So, we’re changing it.” - @torstenbell.bsky.social We seek a country where police can respond properly to crime and pensioners don't sit for hours in hospital corridors. That's the Britain we're building. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comInvestment in UK’s crumbling public services is pro-growth, says pensions ministerExclusive: Torsten Bell defends Labour’s spending plans, saying ‘the status quo is economically and morally bankrupt’ 222
Reposted by Mark McVitieLabour Growth Group @labourgrowth.bsky.social · 01/02/2025New nuclear has a key role to play in delivering the transformative economic potential of the AI revolution while reaching Net Zero. SMRs should be able to go where demand is greatest so that growth is shared across every part of the country. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...thetimes.comGo nuclear in search for growth, Labour MPs urge StarmerBackbenchers tell the prime minister to approve the proposed Sizewell C plant and build mini-reactors around the country 131
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I’ve only seen the trailers and i already know my position in the Brutalist discourse is ‘this is fucking amazing’ 000
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Very much feels like the vibe in the last 24 hrs of geo-politics 010
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Prancer Dancer Dasher Vix.. Wait that’s not what we’re doing here is it? 000
Reposted by Mark McVitieLabour Growth Group @labourgrowth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Our new Chairs @chriscurtis94.bsky.social and Lola McEvoy spoke to @geraldinescott.co.uk at @thetimes.com about why its crucial that voters feel the effects of growth and the need for bold solutions to cut through a tangled web of broken systems in the UK. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comMake voters feel richer or lose like the Democrats, Keir Starmer toldAn influential group of Labour backbenchers has warned the prime minister that his focus on growth is not enough to avoid an electoral wipeout in five years 195
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Man #1: ‘The dumbest, most asinine take on something complicated ever commited to words’ Man #2: *One hundred* percent brother 000
Reposted by Mark McVitieLabour Growth Group @labourgrowth.bsky.social · 24/10/2024We wrote to Rachel Reeves urging her to make this ambitious decision. Leaving behind the failed Tory fiscal framework and boldly investing in Britain’s future is crucial to growing our economy. We’re proud to back a Labour Chancellor bringing growth back to the UK 👇 0146
Reposted by Mark McVitieLabour Growth Group @labourgrowth.bsky.social · 13/10/2024We're urging the Chancellor to adopt a fiscal framework that recognises the value of investment at the coming Budget. It is time to break with the failure of the past and invest in Britain's future. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLabour MPs urge Reeves to spend tens of billions more on ailing public servicesAbout 70 colleagues have written to chancellor ahead of budget pleading for her to commit to rewriting fiscal rules 1185
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 01/09/2024Genuinely feeling very proud to be helping @chriscurtis94.bsky.social bang the drum for MPs to do their bit to build the homes this country desperately needs. And we are very much just getting warmed up. inews.co.uk/news/politic...inews.co.ukLabour 'Yimbys' urge MPs not to be Nimbys over housingMembers of the new Labour Yimby group have said MPs should 'loudly and proudly' support housing projects in their areas 020
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 15/08/2024Gonna need verification on this sight in a hurry. Perhaps some sort of check or mark in a calmingly official colour scheme... 000
Mark McVitie @markmcvitie.bsky.social · 14/08/2024media.tenor.coma close up of a person holding a gun with the words `` it 's '' written on the bottom .ALT: a close up of a person holding a gun with the words `` it 's '' written on the bottom . 000