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As one of five million Britons living overseas, I will not be present in the UK when it decides whether or not to leave the European Union on June 23. I’m not afraid to say that watching the future of my country unfold from afar is an…
The New Economics debate series, announced by John McDonnell earlier this month, formally launched on Tuesday with a powerhouse lecture by Mariana Mazzucato, a member of Labour's star-studded Economic Advisory Committee. The series promises…
I’ll put my cards on the table from the outset: I’m pro-electoral reform. I believe proportional representation (PR) is a fairer system for selecting our parliamentarians, and would return a House of Commons that more closely reflects the…
Amid the torrent of fudged statistics and poorly-disguised u-turns in the recent Autumn Statement, the Chancellor snuck in a devastating attack on the Labour Party’s funding. This was the proposed 19% cut in “Short Money”: the state-backed…
Labour needs career politicians. Those in the party campaigning for the demise of the so-called ‘spadocracy’ - installed in the Blair years and maintained under the Miliband regime - in favour of an amorphous ‘new democracy’ not only…
A few weeks ago I smuggled myself into the Islington hustings between Tim Farron and Norman Lamb – a socialist cuckoo in the liberal nest. I was curious to discover what the mood was within the party that suffered an even more brutal…
The Conservatives may have secured a majority in parliament, but they fell far short of winning the hearts, minds, or votes of Britain’s young people on May 7. Ipsos-Mori estimates that only 27% of 18-34 year olds ticked the Tory box on…
Labour is the party of the people, but who are the people behind the party? In an election dominated by data and analytics it is all too easy to lose sight of the human aspect of the campaign. People vote for policies as well as…
Ed Miliband pledged in his speech to conference last week to end a “21st century discrimination” and fight to “deliver equal rights for the self-employed in Britain”. According to Ed, this is the new frontline on which the Labour Party must…
The quiet theft of rights and benefits from the most vulnerable people in Britain has become a hallmark of this government. They veiled the bedroom tax behind obscure talk of a spare room subsidy, cloaked the cutback of financial support to…
Boris Johnson’s latest gambit on the road to Number 10, if the London Evening Standard is to be believed, is to set up and manage a new Whitehall super-department: a Ministry for Infrastructure. The idea is to concentrate responsibility for…
There’s no whitewashing the fact that Paris Brown said some pretty nasty things about immigrants and homosexuals when she was 14, and that her position was made untenable by a press crusade thirsty for her blood. In many ways, Brown was a…
