‘It is not easy being Chancellor’
The Government’s vast majority meant Rachel Reeves’ Finance Bill passed its final Commons reading this week without the…
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‘Are slates helping or harming Labour’s internal elections?’
Internal elections are coming thick and fast across the Labour Party this year, with a range of roles…
‘This Labour Government needs to fix the Tory student loan fiasco’
Whatever reason you joined the Labour Party, a belief in social mobility is likely to be part of…
‘Dunblane’s legacy: how grief, courage and a community’s campaign helped ban handguns’
The Dunblane Tragedy is remembered by people across the country, and indeed the world, today. For those of…
‘While the right panics on Iran, Britain needs clean power, not chaos’
If you have tried to follow the position of Reform UK and the Conservative Party on Iran over…
‘The case for rearmament is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore’
Earlier this week, to the evident relief of the Ministry of Defence, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon…
‘Labour must prove it understands public anger over water company failure – and act on it’
Like many Labour MPs I have had a lot of emails encouraging me to watch “Dirty Business”, the…
‘Education, education, education – not debt, debt, debt’
Education, Education, Education. A defining speech from the last Labour government that we rightly look back on with…
‘Labour’s next big win is children’s health – but only if it acts now’
Just before Christmas, I briefly found myself in the corridor of Number 10 speaking with the Prime Minister.…
‘A piece on advice’
On Monday, like many of you, I watched LabourList’s International Women’s Day event with the Fabian Society: an…
