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…
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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…
Votes at 16 is a vital part of engaging young people in the EU referendum
On this day 87 years ago the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act came into law. It…
The Prime Minister’s plan to tackle extremism only makes ISIS more potent
Nothing highlights the sorry state of this government’s plan to combat ISIS and Islamic extremism more than David…
So you’ve been elected leader…
Last week, I laid out the potential paths to victory for the four candidates for Labour leader, setting…
We can be winning the economic arguments, right now
Watching our earnest contenders debating exactly how many pro-business credentials they have to display to make Labour electable…
