Lucy Rigby: ‘Making financial services work for everyone’
Treasury Minister Lucy Rigby says the government's Financial Inclusion Strategy is a plan to make the system work for everyone.
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If May moves away from austerity then it is because of Corbyn’s message of hope
Fighting for her political life, Theresa May reportedly told her shrunken band of MPs that "austerity is over". Deep spending cuts have blighted this country since the Tories took office in 2010. If May really has brought this hideously…
May’s Brexit bluster cannot hide the Tory crises in schools, housing and health
When Theresa May invoked article 50 last month, she promised parliament she would “take this opportunity to build a stronger, fairer Britain”. This wasn’t, of course, the first time the May had felt the need to tell us of her apparent focus…
We need a left response to Brexit – and Labour can shape the debate
Yesterday was the most momentous of many of our political lifetimes. It certainly was for me. The referendum result has laid bare the deep divisions which fracture the country, but the reality - as anyone who's knocked more than a few doors…
The Tories’ Housing Bill shows they will not deal with this growing crisis
Earlier this week the Tories’ Housing Bill passed its second reading. A day or so beforehand, the housing charity Shelter issued a press release saying that 100,000 children in the UK will be homeless this Christmas. Anyone moved by the…
The Tories’ plans for our fundamental liberties are dangerously nonsensical
Just as Michael Gove wrought havoc on the country's education system before he was ushered out of public view by David Cameron, the same fate now awaits the British constitution. The Tories' manifesto commitment to "scrap the Human Rights…
How G4S work alongside the police – a case study from Lincoln
Ed Miliband's call this morning for far greater scrutiny of G4S's involvement in policing is hugely welcome news for us in Lincoln. Here's why. In February of this year, Lincolnshire Police Authority signed a £200 million contract with G4S…
Is it time to get specific about our ‘Alternative’?
By Lucy Rigby / @lucyrigby In his Hyde Park speech to the TUC's March for the Alternative rally on Saturday, Ed Miliband restated the Labour Party's stance to date on the government's cuts: he said that he recognises, given the deficit…