Helping Outsiders Become the Insiders
When I returned to Parliament after the 2010 General Election I resolved to try and tackle the culture…
Hazel Blears
A plan to make internships pay
Over the past year the growing problem of unpaid internships has gained an increasingly public profile. Efforts by…
Respect and Protect: Clare’s Law
By Hazel Blears MP In 2007 Clare Wood, a young woman in my constituency, began a relationship with…
Cameron’s flawed vision
By Hazel Blears MP When David Cameron re-launched the Big Society brand in February this year he responded…
It’s still ‘who you know’ not ‘what you know’
By Hazel Blears MP Andrew Neil’s Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain documentary a couple…
In combating violent extremism, we need to be less squeamish about religion
By Hazel Blears This afternoon I gave a talk about violent extremism at the London School of Economics.…
Cameron’s green paper is a damp squib. Here’s why.
By Hazel Blears The Tories launched their long-awaited ‘Localism’ green paper today. As Jeremy Beecham commented , “I…
Economic hardship: why the Tories just don’t get it
By Hazel Blears Millions of people in Britain are worried about the recession and way it will affect…
