‘Labour must offer pride, not just employment, to former coal communities’
Reform’s call to bring back coal mining initially seems absurd. Coal jobs peaked more than a century ago…
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‘The decline of Welsh rugby echoes Labour’s waning grip’
Rugby, they say, is a game for ruffians played by gentlemen. But that was never its way in…
‘Labour’s new deal for working people will restore dignity and justice to work – but the Tories and Liberal Democrats are trying to wreck it’
The Labour Party was forged to protect working people. From the factories and workshops of the industrial age…
‘Ready to join an army of feminist changemakers?’
Applications are now open for the Jo Cox Women in Leadership programme. Now in its eighth cohort, this…
Ben Cooper Column: ‘We need to ‘build baby build’ social housing to meet the 1.5m new homes target’
There is no path to tackling England’s housing crisis without building 1.5m new homes in this parliament. To…
‘We mustn’t retreat on the green transition’
As an MP who has had a major energy-efficient retrofit of my home, I am optimistic about how…
‘Voters don’t believe the PM means what he says – that’s the problem’
After Caerphilly, Westminster has fallen into one of its more comforting debates. How far Labour should tack left,…
‘Continued support for the Global Health Fund will build a healthier and more secure world for us all’
Ahead of World AIDS Day last year, the Prime Minister set the laudable goal of ending HIV transmissions…
‘The employment rights bill is good for business – but local authorities must drive the delivery’
As the Employment Rights Bill makes its way to becoming law, attention must now turn towards implementing it…
‘This is Britain’s quiet emergency. We must act together to end it’
Britain is living through a quiet emergency. Fields are turning to dust after summer droughts, coastal towns are…
