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…
Liam Byrne
Our young people need a real chance to work in a real job paying a real wage
Iain Duncan Smith’s incompetence has turned his back to work schemes into a West Coast Mainline-style disaster –…
Getting young people back to work in Bradford
As 2012 drew to a close Labour’s Youth Jobs Taskforce rolled into Bradford where we met Cllr Dave…
Youth Jobs Taskforce Report: Sheffield
Cllr Julie Dore and her team at Sheffield City Council have got some awful decisions to take over…
Youth Jobs Taskforce Report: Liverpool
Last week, this government ran out of places to hide. Two reports from DWP made undeniably grim reading,…
Renewing the Reward for Responsibility
As we mark the 70th anniversary of the Beveridge Report, I want to show how the contributory principle…
Childcare – lessons from Denmark
As we begin NationaI Childcare Week, hope history will show that the most important talk on welfare reform…
What happened to the revolution?
It was good to hear the Prime Minister follow Labour’s lead and join the big debate about the…
IDS isn’t just out of touch, he’s in la la land
The retreat from Compassionate Conservatism is well and truly under way. David Cameron was just a year into…
We face an unemployment emergency
Today’s unemployment figures should set alarm bells ringing in Downing Street. The highest number of women unemployed since…
