Britain should renegotiate with the European Union to end the free movement of labour, Maurice Glasman says in a interview in the forthcoming Fabian Review. The man behind Blue Labour says any immigration should be on a case-by-case basis and that "we have to put the people in this country first".

Speaking to Mary Riddell he said: “We’ve got to re-interrogate our relationship with the EU on the movement of labour. The EU has gone from being a sort of pig farm subsidised bloc ... to the free movement of labour and capital. It’s legalistic, it’s administrative, and it’s no good. So I think we’ve got to renegotiate with the EU.”

The Liberal Democrats are facing the prospect of returning no female MPs at the next election says a new study in the Fabian Review. The party faces a "toxic triple cocktail" of political unpopularity, a smaller House of Commons at the next election meaning fewer opportunities to select new candidates, and the legacy of past selection patterns which have left Lib Dem women in more electorally vulnerable seats than their male counterparts.

As reported in the Guardian, Sunder Katwala and Seema Malhotra argue that the Lib Dems must take radical action to avoid becoming a male-only parliamentary party, starting by droping opposition to all-women shortlists.