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We need a bold offer and clear leadership to regain the support of progressive and socially conservative, economically insecure voters.
Joe Dromey
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‘This weekend the Fabian Society discuss Labour’s plans to renew Britain, the challenges and the choices ahead’
Eighteen months ago, the electorate kicked out a tired, divided, scandal-ridden and utterly failed Conservative government, delivering Labour a historic landslide victory. But things look very different today. The first year and a half in…
Fabian Society: ‘Let’s all do what we can to ensure the process is constructive and comradely’
Fabian Society General Secretary calls for a constructive process and outcome in the Labour Deputy Leadership contest.
Welfare vote: ‘Three options Rachel Reeves has to plug the fiscal gap’
What remained of the welfare reform bill scraped through the Commons yesterday. The government had been banking on significant savings to the disability benefit bill. But following stiff opposition from the backbenches, these savings have…
‘Labour must deliver change voters can feel’, says Fabian Society’s Joe Dromey
Fabian Society general secretary Joe Dromey writes that Labour must deliver change voters can feel.
The Tory Trade Union Bill is an unnecessary, undemocratic and unfair attack on working people
Starting on Monday 8th, the TUC will be running #HeartUnions week; seven days of action to celebrate the vital work done by unions, their reps, and members in workplaces and in society. It comes at an important time for the movement…
When you cut councils, it’s the NHS that bleeds
Even before the cold weather hits, the NHS is on the brink of another winter crisis. Figures released yesterday show that many hospitals, having barely recovered from last winter’s crisis, are facing another which promises to be worse…
Eric Pickles cancels Christmas
Tis the season of goodwill. Though someone forgot to tell Eric Pickles. He used the wind-down before the festive period to sneak out the news of the additional funding cuts that will be imposed on local authorities in the next two years…
Welfare cuts and the death of Compassionate Conservatism
The Autumn Statement of two weeks ago was the final nail in the coffin of ‘compassionate conservatism’. The Tories claimed to have changed. Iain Duncan Smith, once a doyenne of the Thatcherite right, seemed to have transformed into someone…
The Work Programme is doomed to fail
The Work Programme – one year old this week – is the centrepiece of the government’s drive to ‘get Britain working’. But in the context of a stalled recovery and a return to recession, it is doomed to fail. The responsibility for this…