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This week the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Electoral Conduct, of which I was a senior member, published its recommendations. Our work was based around a finding by another parliamentary committee that antisemitism was being used as…
It has been an important week in the life of the Boris for Prime Minister campaign. On Tuesday, he launched his “2020 Vision” report, a lengthy treatise that corrals together previously announced projects and ‘ambitions’ and repackages them…
One year ago, London went to the polls and handed Boris Johnson another four years as Mayor. Then, he stood on a “Nine Point Plan for a Greater London”, a skeletal manifesto designed to counter criticism that he had no plan for his office…
Today, fares on London Transport have increased above the level of inflation for the fifth time in a row under Boris Johnson. The cumulative effect of his Mayorality on transport prices has been a 55% increase in the price of a bus journey…
The Labour Party has always been at its best when it is challenging received wisdom. When the Second World War had bankrupted us, Attlee and Bevan found the time to build a ‘New Jerusalem’. When the Labour Party found itself criticised for…
The riots which started in London nine months ago shocked the world. At the time, I said that we must not let the future of Tottenham slide out of view as the journalists and TV cameras moved away. Yet that is exactly what the government…
According to Michael Gove, the pupil premium “goes to every child eligible for free school meals and is allocated precisely according to need”. He is correct on the first point, but very much wrong on the second. If the premium is allocated…
Dear Boris, I am writing to ask how you can justify the extraordinary cost and diversion of resources of procuring the 'new bus', which has come in at a price of £1.4 million per bus. Why are you spending £1.4million on a single bus whilst…
By David Lammy MP Yesterday Ed Miliband gave his best speech yet as Labour leader. Not simply because it came after another round of tired, boring, irrelevant, repetitive, backward-looking carping about the Blair and Brown years. But…
By David Lammy MP We are at our best when we let our values do the talking. We have never needed to spin the benefits of the Race Relations Act, civil partnerships or the minimum wage - all were so obviously informed by our core beliefs in…
By David Lammy MP Conservatives have a long history of using every tool at their disposal to fight against democratic reform. Recently, Baroness Warsi told people not to back the Alternative Vote because it would increase the influence of…
By David Lammy MP and Will Straw The recent debate over housing benefit has been conducted through the foggy haze of misinformation and bluster. Thousands of column inches were wasted last month as journalists missed the wood for the trees…
