Renewal was established in 1993 as the magazine of the
Labour Coordinating Committee in the wake of the
Labour Party's fourth successive election defeat. Under the
editorship of
Neal Lawson and
Paul Thompson, it established itself as an influential forum for debate among Labour Party "modernisers". Over time its editors took an increasingly critical approach towards
Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party and were instrumental in the foundation of the pressure group
Compass. In 2007, Martin McIvor took over as editor. In 2012, Ben Jackson took over as editor. In 2016, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and James Stafford took over as editors. In 2025 David Klemperer, Morgan Jones, Jack Jeffries, and Lise Butler took over as editors. In the early-mid 2010s, the journal carried articles from such authors as Lord
Stewart Wood,
Lisa Nandy MP, and
Rachel Reeves and Martin McIvor, and interviews with
Frances O'Grady, and
Thomas Piketty. ==References==