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This is Caroline Flint's full speech during a debate on the EEA amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill. Since the referendum, I’m afraid in this place and outside, the debate has often been polarised between hard-line Brexiteers, who feel we…
Caroline Flint MP chaired the most recent meeting of Labour for the Common Good group in Parliament – this is her report. You can read all reports of the meetings here. Politics is often a battle between head and heart, instinct and reason…
When I joined the Labour Party in 1979, age 17, I had no idea that for the next 18 years, Labour would be in opposition to a Tory government. As a young activist, I seemed to be on a different demo every week. Thatcher was in power and…
Two weeks ago, in a huge u-turn by the Tories and Liberal Democrats and a big victory for the protection of Britain’s environment, the Government accepted a Labour amendment to their Infrastructure Bill. The amendment represented the…
Britain is facing an energy bill crisis, with millions of people struggling to heat their homes. Under the Tories, energy bills have risen twice as fast as inflation, four times faster than wages and faster than almost any other country in…
Today at Prime Minister’s Questions David Cameron asserted that “man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world faces”. For once, it seems we agree on something. But the problem is that although…
No Christmas is ever stress free. There are cards to write, presents to buy, decorations to put up, and a lot more besides. But once the gifts have been opened, the turkey’s been carved and the Christmas Downton Abbey’s started, there’s…
Since Ed Miliband's announcement of an energy price freeze while we reset the market, energy policy has rarely been out of the headlines. Today's announcement of a long-awaited deal between the Government and EDF to build a new nuclear…
Eric Pickles’ car crash interview on the Today programme this morning showed that the Tories’ response to Ed Miliband’s energy price freeze is unravelling. Asked what he made of the policy, Pickles first repeated the scare stories that it…
In one of the coldest and longest winters in memory, it's little surprise that energy bills have rarely been out of the headlines. But the problems with Britain's energy market go far deeper than the cold snap. Over the last decade, the big…
Energy bills are now one of the biggest costs families face. Whenever energy companies announce their price hikes, they always blame wholesale prices. But when wholesale prices fall, energy companies never seem to pass on the savings and…
In this year’s local elections we made good progress, especially in the south. We strengthened our position on Labour councils like Hastings, Ipswich, Oxford, Slough and Stevenage. Places like Great Yarmouth, Harlow, Norwich and Thurrock –…
