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Over a year has passed since Britain voted to leave the European Union. In that time the government has triggered article 50, and produced a series of confused position papers and statements which throw up more questions than answers. At…
This is less of an article than a plea. A plea to any other MP who may be considering his or her options this week. Maybe because people have been a bit too polite, a bit too complimentary about those of your colleagues on the Labour…
With November’s Comprehensive Spending Review fast approaching, what is and isn’t mentioned in ministerial speeches at Conservative Party Conference should be taken as an indication of what is and isn’t up for grabs. Having been a general…
With 16 women to 15 men in Labour’s new Shadow Cabinet, yesterday should have been a day that everyone determined to see greater gender equality – both in society and in the Labour Party – united and delighted. Instead, the new Leader saw…
Like most Labour Party Members the general mud-slinging and name calling on social media about the Leadership contest is not how I think a debate about the future of the party should be conducted. We need to listen and learn from the…
Last week, I had the privilege to speak on a panel a number of women speaking about their experience of being in low paid work in London. Two days later, one of these women, I can’t name her for fairly obvious reasons although it still…
I wrote this article on my laptop in bed. Like Labour activists up and down the country, this is the first occasion in some time I am listening to the Sunday commentators at home rather than on the way to a canvassing session. Bruised and…
On a recent canvass session in Brentford & Isleworth in West London, I met a man who told me he had been reliant on a food bank for food for six months while waiting for treatment for post-traumatic stress and for his Personal Independence…
Three years ago, when I was a candidate for the London Assembly, I read an article in the Evening Standard which has effectively defined my priorities as a politician. The paper’s ‘Dispossessed’ series included a piece on the work of Kids…
Good quality apprenticeships can offer hope and opportunities to young people. They can be the chance they need to gain that first step on the career ladder. It is also essential that we train our future generations in the skills required…
Since the coalition government came to power almost five years ago, child poverty has increased to 3.5 m. Nationally, around a third of children live in poverty, with levels as high as four in ten children in London. Most of these children…
The Mayor of London has said that “investing in young Londoners is investing in the future of our city”. However, despite making Young People one of his ‘priorities’ for his second term, he is failing to deliver on one of the key policy…
