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By Cat Smith With recent days showing the obsession from some with undermining Ed Miliband, I am proud to be leading the launch of a new network of younger Labour Party members, pledging to support the party in moving on from New Labour…
By Cat Smith / @cateysmith Catherine Hakim argues over on Conservative Home that the Conservative Party should ignore 'discredited feminist myths' and declares the 'gender war is over'. Indeed if this was true I would join her in…
By Cat Smith, Chair of Compass Youth The Compass Youth Committee has voted to maintain the current Compass membership criteria. I am confident that we've made the correct decision. We felt the benefits of the current arrangements outweighed…
By Cat Smith / @cateysmith Unite's Len McCluskey extended the hand of solidarity from the trade unions to the student movement in today's Guardian. Recognising the political awakening of young people and students could be just what our…
By Cat Smith / @cateysmith As the tuition fees demonstration weaves its way through London, we'll be bringing you all of the news from the ground, as Cat Smith keeps us up to date with developments throughout the afternoon. 16.45: Our…
By Cat Smith / @cateysmith I was struck by a statistic this week from a Department of Health press release - a woman is raped or sexually assaulted every ten minutes in the UK. Each week 1,000 women are subjected to rape or attempted rape…
By Cat Smith / @cateysmith I went to the cinema last month to see 'Made in Dagenham' with a good friend of mine. We both really enjoyed the film but afterwards both turned to look at each other and remarked how little has changed. If you…
By Cat Smith / @cateysmith The launch of the Equal Love campaign this week got me thinking about marriage, what it means as a religious institution, what it means as a civil institution and how the church and state work together. The…
For the first in our "ideas for electability" series, Cat Smith outlines potential changes in the state pension. The decline of final salary pensions means that UK workers face a bleak retirement living on less than the minimum wage…
By Cat Smith / @CateySmith On the day of the second 24 hour walk-out of TSSA and RMT members on London Underground, Boris Johnson has called for stricter trade union laws making it harder for trade unions to take industrial action. He is…
By Cat Smith / @idontdotwitta The first thing I did this morning was check my Blackberry, only to discover that my Facebook friends were writing about using the tube to get to work. This would be distressing if this had been my 'down the…
By Cat Smith This week has seen the publication of the House of Commons Speaker's Conference recommendations on women's under-representation in Parliament. The Conference was set up in November 2008 by Harriet Harman to address the…
