For Boris Johnson, ‘levelling up’ is merely a slogan in search of a policy
Boris Johnson’s priority as Prime Minister, beyond his desire to ‘get Brexit done’, is his ‘levelling up agenda’.…
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Why Labour’s ruling NEC needs Grassroots Voice candidates
As a Constituency Labour Party (CLP) representative standing down from Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) this year, I…
The Covid university chaos shows Labour is right on scrapping tuition fees
Recent data shows a dramatic increase in Covid cases across the country over the last month as students…
Government must step up. Boulder Barry-ers alone cannot protect our seas
No doubt there are some people in parliament who can think of no better place to have Barry…
‘Captain Hindsight’: Labour’s tricky coronavirus challenge
Government communications are not improving. You would have thought that they would be learning from their mistakes during…
The new job scheme is far inferior to furlough. We need a people’s bailout
The Chancellor’s winter economy plan essentially announced a mass cull of jobs that it deemed “non-viable” while imposing…
George Lindars-Hammond: Why I’m standing to represent Labour’s disabled members
The Labour Party has a proud history in government of action on behalf of underrepresented and discriminated against…
PMQs: Starmer walks a tightrope on Covid restrictions
Boris Johnson came prepared to Prime Minister’s Questions session this afternoon. As Keir Starmer predictably kicked off with…
The self-employed have been abandoned during the coronavirus crisis
While the pandemic has hit all parts of the economy hard, the self-employed have been particularly badly affected.…
Why Labour should review its strategy of abstention on second reading
In the aftermath of the shock election defeat of 2015, Harriet Harman determined that the electorate had spoken…
