‘Labour must offer the politics of opportunity and aspiration’
Labour should redouble our efforts to put the issues affecting younger people and young adults at the centre of our politics.
Andrew Lewin MP
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‘How do we transform our nation? It’s written on our membership cards’
Our political opponents are looking to exploit the difficult times we live in. But we will face this moment with compassion and confidence.
‘Rushing a UK–EU customs union now would undermine real progress’
The UK must focus on delivering real progress in current EU negotiations before pushing for a Customs Union that Brussels isn’t ready to discuss.
New intake Labour MPs: ‘Why we set up the Living Standards Coalition’
A group of new intake MPs on why they have set up a living standards coalition.
‘It’s time to give a Citizen’s Advance to those who can’t rely on Bank of Mum and Dad’
Labour MP Andrew Lewin writes that British citizens should be able to claim one year of their state pension early.
The Conservatives want another fight with the EU: how should Labour respond?
Exasperated, exhausted, angry. These are some of the words that I suspect come to mind for Labour activists and voters when Brexit is mentioned. Many of us wearily read the reports that prove beyond doubt that Brexit has set us back and…
The courage to change – why I’m backing Jess Phillips to lead
I have spent the last two years campaigning for Labour to fight for a future inside the European Union. Remain Labour was a grassroots organisation that I set up with a simple conviction: Brexit would hit hardest those who have least. I…
Five lessons for 2020
I joined our party four and a half years ago, having realised that Labour alone can deliver a government that marries social justice with economic stability, and aspiration with equality of opportunity. It was unquestionably one of the best…
Labour should champion a ‘Zero-Based Review’ of our Tax system
One of the best and bravest decisions made by the party leadership in 2013 was to commission a ‘zero-based review’ of public spending. The commitment to a, “root and branch review of every pound the government spends”, reflects the…
Labour must turn the minimum wage into a ‘living wage’ by 2020
As 2010 was defined by a debate on public spending, cuts and the deficit, 2015 will be the ‘living standards’ election. That calculation is at the heart of Ed Miliband’s strategy for returning Labour to power. Ignore headlines proclaiming…
For an honest debate on welfare spending; we need a Department for OAPs
It has been a historic week for our welfare system. Seven million families with at least one person in work, will see their incomes fall after cuts to tax credits; while some of the poorest families in the country face a new levy as high as…
Cutting Child Benefit – A Progressive Case for the Defence
There were many reasons to commend the Labour Pre-Budget Press Conference on Monday. Good attack lines against the government on the 50p rate, a restatement of a costed five point plan to drive growth in the economy and a new pledge to cut…