So you want to be PM? Advice to leadership hopefuls from a former civil servant
I joined the civil service in 2014, went on a career break in 2023, and resigned last year.…
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‘On ‘big tech’ good regulation helps good growth’
Labour is gripped by a leadership debate centred on a perceived tension between stimulating economic growth and tackling…
‘Identity matters: Why ‘Just For Scotland’ is starting the conversation about an independent Scottish Labour Party’
Writing in early 2020, the words of Monica Lennon (MSP 2016-26) now feel prophetic. “In Scotland, the party…
‘Labour must take up the challenge on endometriosis’
“I believe this country has, for far too long, faced not only a problem of everyday sexism but…
‘It’s not either/or when it comes to economic growth and climate change’
It’s policies, not personalities, that matter in politics. The gossip around the leadership of the Labour Party will…
‘I stayed in Labour through it all – but we cannot go on like this’
Are we still pulling together for the sake of our country, or are we allowing a short-sighted leadership…
‘Labour must learn the right lessons from the Milburn Review’
A great deal has already been said about the interim report of Alan Milburn’s review into the one…
‘Making work work for working families’
Today, around three in four children growing up in poverty live in a working household. A generation ago,…
‘Social security isn’t the answer to everything, but on child poverty it goes a long way’
In among the public and private conversations about social security this week, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions…
‘A crucial crossroads – How Britain must think differently about social mobility’
Over the past few decades, social mobility has been one of the rare concepts to command consensus across…
