PMQs verdict: What have we learned? That Westminster has tried and failed to control immigration?
You could tell early on that PMQs was going to be…different, this week. The Prime Minister was sat…
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Immigration should be addressed in a way consistent with Labour values
Last week, Ed Miliband announced some proposals to tackle immigration, setting out what Labour’s plan on the issue…
We need a new settlement for communities across the country
For communities up and down the country the last few years have been extremely tough. The current Tory…
This Government has a railways problem: East Coast
Today Andy Sawford is highlighting the fact that, when it comes to the railways, this Government has a…
So when exactly did Boris Johnson stop being our Mayor?
Perhaps it was around the time when the sitting MP for Uxbridge, John Randall, announced he was retiring…
Public ownership is not some left wing crackpot idea. Labour must embrace it
In May 2015, an incoming Labour government will face many challenges, not least what to do about the…
British politics trundles towards the abyss – what are we doing about it?
The Labour Party’s response to a worsening polling position has been remarkably sanguine. For a long time, there…
We must not make the same mistake with the Greens that we did with the Lib Dems
Given the extent to which UKIP has wrong-footed Labour (nationally we don’t seem to have decided yet whether…
This government needs to fundamentally change the way it treats disabled people
By Stephen Timms and Kate Green Lord Freud’s now notorious suggestion that disabled people were not “worth” the…
We should make the case for the EU whenever we can, not just when we have to
Developments at an EU level have – yet again – caused outraged in the UK, after the European Commission…
