Clegg’s peers set to sell out NHS
Today will show that when Nick Clegg signed the Health and Social Care Bill over a year ago…
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Labour activists are being sent naked on to the doorstep
Ed Miliband was on the Victoria Derbyshire show today, and received a somewhat predictable roughing up. He was…
It’s not too late for the Chancellor to change course
Last night my Shadow Treasury team colleague Cathy Jamieson MP and I led a debate in the House…
On marriage
I am very happily married. I’ve been with my partner for six plus years and married for three…
What can a rough sleeper do with big words?
The Government is learning a painful lesson -with big words come with big responsibilities. You can’t pin values…
In defence of All Women Shortlists
You can almost set your watch by it. Every few years someone – almost invariably a man –…
Keeping the lights on…
Barring the N words (nimbys and nuclear), energy policy has been remarkably lacking in party politics since the…
Helmer’s defection to UKIP ultimately the result of Tory confusion about selection processes
At one level I can’t get very worked up about Roger Helmer MEP defecting from the Tories to…
Council Tax: Deal or no deal?
The clock is ticking. Councils have until March 18th to decide whether they want to take up the Government’s…
Iran: we’d be mad to
Towards the end of February Labour launched, to little fanfare, its ‘shadow defence review’. The consultation paper will…
