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In his Hugo Young lecture earlier this week, Ed Miliband set out a vision for a Labour government that challenges unaccountable power and champions people powered public services. In a speech to the New Local Government Network today, Jon…
Last week, the Home Office announced that vans emblazoned with the message 'Here illegally? Go home or face arrest' would be making their way through the streets of outer London Boroughs, including Redbridge. Though they carry a number for…
From civil partnerships to adoption rights for same-sex couples, the Labour governments led by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown delivered legal equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people on virtually every front. It is a testament to that…
If Ed Miliband is in need of some more examples of predatory capitalists out to exploit people, he should look no further than Wonga's latest campaign targeting students. As students and their families worry about meeting the costs of…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting Labour's priority is to reduce the cost of going to university. The Tories and Lib Dems' priority is a tax cut for the banks. That's the dividing line that has emerged today following Ed Miliband's…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting Writing for the Guardian two months ago, I warned that "confusion around the new [tuition fees and student finance] arrangements presents a real risk that students may be deterred in the absence of the facts…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting Today's Times Education Supplement (TES) reports that a draft copy of regulations seen by the paper reveal a watering down of Michael Gove's pledge to create new powers to sack members of the BNP - and other…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting Under the new admissions code, due to be published by the Department for Education, schools look set to be given the power to reserve places for children from low income backgrounds - so long as they are…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting With some honourable exceptions, members of the Parliamentary Labour Party behaved disgracefully in Tuesday's debate about House of Lords reform. It was almost as though the act of Nick Clegg rising to his…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting This has been another bad week for the government on higher education. On Tuesday morning, the Guardian was reporting on government plans to allow students from rich families to pay even higher tuition fees…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting Whether your Labour politics are something old, new, borrowed or blue*, there is an emerging consensus that the renewal of the Party under Ed Miliband must address the fact that we have haemorrhaged support…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting As I rested my weary feet on Saturday afternoon, my pride at being part of a mass movement of half a million people marching for an alternative to the rapid and savage Tory cuts turned to anger. Like Paul…
