Youth unemployment and scorched earth
By Chris Williamson MP Last week’s publication of the latest youth unemployment figures made for highly depressing reading.…
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We can’t just leave things to the big society
By Chris Williamson MP Innovative solutions are required if we are to successfully enable those families who are…
Putting the UK economy into reverse
By Chris Williamson MP The Office of National Statistics revelation that the UK economy saw no economic growth…
Embracing Victorian values with a vengeance
By Chris Williamson MP January is a month when we usually look forward to the year ahead with…
AV is bad news for democracy
By Chris Williamson MP The central plank of the ‘Yes to AV’ campaign is disingenuous because its claims…
Building a recovery in the New Year will be impeded by NIMBY’s charter
By Chris Williamson MP Research released on Monday revealed that building the homes required to meet the government’s…
Lib Dem policy – a year is a long time in politics…
By Chris Williamson MP / @chriswmp It was Harold Wilson who in the 1960s coined the phrase that…
A profoundly dangerous gamble with the economy
By Chris Williamson MP / @ChriswMP The Comprehensive Spending Review has now been completed and the chancellor has…
Britain’s poorest: Sacrified on the altar of deficit
By Chris Williamson MP So the ConDem coalition has agreed to make £9 billion cuts in benefits after…
Naked gerrymandering
By Chris Williamson MP On Monday evening the ConDem coalition secured the second reading of its gerrymandering Parliamentary…
