“This is not what I expect from the Labour Party I joined”
It’s fair to say that the mayoral referenda being held in ten English cities next Thursday are splitting…
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Southern Comfort – Cambridge and Milton Keynes
My tour of the south continues in Cambridge for the regional launch of Labour’s Action Plan for Family…
The EU Budget: a tool for investment in jobs and growth
The EU budget never fails to attract the attention of the UK press. This week’s proposal for a…
Every government has bad times – but this feels worse…
There’s something vaguely reassuring about discovering that extreme combinations of adverse events immediately before elections don’t just happen…
The left’s choice
George Papandreou’s victory was spectacular. Facing the failed New Democracy Government under Kostas Karamanlis, a party that in…
The Tories have laid the foundations of disaster in London
And so it begins. Newham Council’s decision to attempt to rehouse 500 families 160 miles away in Stoke-on-Trent…
Welcome news for London
Today’s announcement, that if elected next week Ken Livingstone will appoint Oona King as his young people’s champion,…
Osborne’s faith-based economics have worsened Britain’s slump in jobs and demand
The confirmation by the Office of National Statistics this morning that the UK economy has been driven completely…
A child dies every day from Malaria
A child dies from Malaria every minute. Please just take a second or two to let that sink…
PMQs verdict – Ed Miliband and the agony of choice
Well he can’t say we didn’t warn him… Today Ed Miliband was a victim of the agony of…
