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The reality of Labour’s election defeat, and the Tories in charge with an 80-seat majority, is already hitting home. In Westminster, we’ve seen Boris Johnson whipping his MPs to use child refugees as a bartering chip with the EU. And the…
Labour finishing fourth in a by-election – or any election for that matter – is a disaster. For a party that is supposed to be a government-in-waiting, we should be challenging the Tories all over the country, making sure there are no…
On Tuesday, I was in Belfast to debate with Nigel Farage. An audience of over 200 hundred mainly young people came along to listen to UKIP’s leader put the case for leaving the EU, while I argued for us remaining. Mr Farage kicked off…
When Labour’s great reforming government took office in 1945, Clement Atlee led a Cabinet that contained several veterans of the First World War, including himself, the Chancellor, Hugh Dalton and the Home Secretary, James Chuter Ede. The…
UK Defence policy is at a crossroads: UK Service Personnel will have withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of the year; plans are already underway to draw down from Germany; and the repercussions of the economic crisis require the MoD to be…
This weekend, Ed Miliband and I are in Afghanistan visiting the Armed Forces in Camp Bastion. The British combat mission may be coming to an end, but it's clear from what I've seen here and what our service men and women have told me: there…
In villages, towns and cities across Britain, people of all ages, races and creeds will gather today to remember and show respect for the sacrifice of our Armed Forces. For many of them, this will be a truly personal remembrance of a family…
This morning, Ed Miliband spoke to the TUC conference about One Nation Labour’s commitment to building a new politics in Britain. It was courageous, visionary and, yes, a little risky. But bringing about change and doing the right thing…
For too long, those who've worked the hardest have been the least rewarded. The last Labour government did a lot to help with measures like the minimum wage and tax credits designed to make work pay. But it did not do enough. And, under…
