The idea of Europe
Almost 31 years ago the French President, Francois Mitterrand, and the West German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, visited the…
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To win in 2020, we need to beat UKIP in the south as well as the north
We know that we’ve got our work cut out to win a Labour majority government in 2020. Without…
Defeat doesn’t make us defunct
It’s frustrating when protests and demonstrations are shrugged of as a meaningless waste of time and those who…
The EU Referendum could do to Labour in England what the independence referendum did in Scotland
The issue of Europe rarely stirs Labour’s soul. The current attitude of ‘we’re moderately pro mainly because the…
Cutting the public health grant would be a cut to the NHS
Amidst the chaos of the coalition’s NHS reforms a few years ago responsibility for public health services moved…
Scotland has a housing crisis and it demands radical solutions
It’s vital that Scottish Labour goes into next year’s Holyrood elections with a bold and ambitious manifesto. Few…
There are too many young people in prison who don’t need to be there
Some truisms exist for many years yet nobody acts upon them. Then along comes an avalanche of evidence…
Labour’s leadership hopefuls need to ditch ‘aspiration’ and start talking about ‘meritocracy’
As the post-mortem of Labour’s election defeat takes place in the midst of the party’s leadership election, observers…
You need more votes than your opponents, not predecessors
Elections are simple affairs in a first-past-the-post country. The task of the candidate is to get more votes…
We should lead the world in delivering justice to victims of mesothelioma
This Friday, I will join campaigners, families and fellow MPs in Manchester to commemorate the victims of the…
