This isn’t “Mission Accomplished” for Miliband – party reform requires permanent revolution
It’s tempting to see today’s special conference in London as the end of a process. Miliband’s party reforms…
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A week in the life of a Shadow Minister
Monday Monday starts with the familiar journey back to London after having spent recess in my constituency in…
5 things you need to know Party Reform
Since the NEC endorsed Ed Miliband’s big changes to the Labour Party lots has been written about what…
Never mind the Scots, it’s the English we have to persuade
Scottish independence reared its head at my son’s fifth birthday party last Sunday. It was one of the…
What would the effect of coaliton be?
There has been much discussion on these pages and elsewhere about whether Labour should go into a coalition…
Local Government can’t be business as usual
After a long period in the dark local government is coming out of the shadows. Recent announcements by…
Sorry Sunny, if Labour is the largest party we simply have to go it alone
As we approach 2015 and the end of the current cosy coalition, Nick Clegg has seen fit to…
Angela Merkel is not going to save David Cameron from his own backbenchers
Today Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will arrive in London for talks with all three party leaders. David Cameron will…
Cameron is too busy trying to redefine child poverty to tackle it
Under David Cameron’s child poverty is rising not falling. And the government’s failure to tackle child poverty leads…
Putting the hope back into Britain
Today, I made it to Cambridge University. The richest university in Europe, one of the most successful in…
