Yvette Cooper’s revolution for supporting families is right for Labour
I admired the strength of many of my fellow former parliamentary candidates, who felt ready to write about…
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Burnham has a plan for the biggest shift from Westminster to councils in a generation
This article is co-authored by 12 Labour group leaders, listed below. Andy Burnham’s speech last week on A New…
How can we deliver a strong NHS with decreasing resources?
An overworked doctor, sweating in his scrubs on the hottest day of the year, collapses gratefully into a…
Speaking their language: lessons Labour can learn from business
Politicians from across the political spectrum are guilty of speaking to the public in a way which can…
The Government may have pledged to spend 2% of GDP on Defence, but the devil is in the detail
Very few expected any of the headlines generated by this week’s Budget to focus on Defence. But let…
We need to see a lot more passion and a little less caution from the people who want to be our next Prime Minister
We’re about a third of the way through the Labour Leadership contest, billed as our big chance to…
A truly independent BBC must be owned by its licence fee payers
Monday’s deal between the BBC and Government to hand the Corporation responsibility for funding TV licences for over-75s…
The next Labour leader must champion electoral reform
In the most disproportionate election result in modern British electoral history, on the 7th May 2015, the Conservative…
Five key mistakes Miliband made that the next leader must learn from
Over the last couple of weeks I have been writing about the leadership race – how each candidate…
Don’t let the Tories off the hook – there is an economic alternative
The Chancellor boasted today that ‘this is a big Budget…a new settlement from a one nation government’’. It…
