The housing crisis – who benefits and who loses out?
The housing crisis is radically different from region to region. In London, the housing benefit cap means families…
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Unlike the Tories, Labour has a plan to create an economy that works for working families
Yesterday’s news of a fall in unemployment is welcome, but behind the headlines there’s another story to tell.…
Why MPs should vote against next week’s amendment on sex-selective abortion
Next week, MPs will have the chance to ‘clarify’ the law to definitively ban sex-selective abortions in the…
Labour should be wary of the new Tory modernisers
In 1999, Philip Gould published his tome on the modernisation of the Labour Party, The Unfinished Revolution. The…
Will Labour commit to spending 2% of GDP on defence?
Labour activists don’t knock doors on a Saturday morning to argue for more money for bombs. No party…
Labour’s apprenticeship guarantee is a clear move forward – but what about low pay?
This week Labour are continuing to walk down the path on which they first tread last week: they’re…
Labour’s industrial policy shows they get how to transform the economy
It was great to see Ed Miliband outline Labour’s industrial policy yesterday and put it at the heart…
Only the rich benefit from Tory policy
The recent revelations about the Tories’ latest fundraising activity could genuinely have come straight from a political satire…
As he prepares to leave Parliament, we should all remember David Hamilton’s story
When I first heard that Labour MP David Hamilton was standing down after 14 years as MP for…
Labour is the only real party of Wales
Swansea is a city I know well, it is the city of my birth and where I worked…
