Came across this article: 

The Progressive Alliance: Why Labour Needs It 

Jeremy Gilbert

The link to the pdf is:

 https://www.compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Labour-the-PA.pdf


It was written in 2017 but most of the content is very relevant, if not more relevant now


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