Healey showed what guts it took to be a Common Sense Chancellor
There’s a certain art to be Chancellor of the Exchequer during the good times. It’s a time to…
Liam Byrne
These three hard truths are the key to Labour winning again
Though it pains me to say, the 2015 election results were a landmark. They prove definitively, once and…
The inescapable truth is: unless we grow smarter we’ll grow poorer
One Nation Labour is at it’s very core as it must be: a project of modernisation. To fit…
Time to start backing and stop attacking our young people
George Osborne has badly misjudged the mood. There is little market for his Narnia-like politics of always winter…
Labour’s new way forward for higher education
At 3.50pm on Friday 16 October 1964, Harold Wilson’s office took the call from the Queen’s Private Secretary,…
David Willetts doesn’t get it – we should be doing more to support disabled students, not less
The huge expansion of higher education under Labour in the 1960s was the big reform that meant people…
We need to strengthen British science – because British science will strengthen Britain
During last month’s local elections, I saw first-hand the concern people have about the future. Like 50 years…
Labour will repeal the bedroom tax, confirms Liam Byrne MP
The bedroom tax is the worst combination of incompetence and cruelty – and Labour will repeal it. Just…
Universal Credit: time to send in the rescue team
Universal Credit is in crisis. And Iain Duncan Smith has utterly lost control. Of that there is no…
The Jobseekers Bill is difficult for Labour – but I think we’ve made the right call
People are very angry about the Jobseekers Bill currently before Parliament. Labour MP’s are furious. Labour councillors and…
