‘Jack Charlton and Labour’s rural tradition’
As the Member of Parliament for Blyth and Ashington, I represent communities that helped build both the Labour…
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Earn or Learn: the case for a British Youth Allowance
The UK faces a daunting challenge in tackling youth unemployment and re-engaging a potentially ‘lost generation’ of young…
Cruelty has NEVER been “normal” in the NHS
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The “thin blue line” is getting stretched ever thinner
In Government, Labour listened to local people and the Police and invested in neighbourhood policing, with local bobbies…
Ed Miliband’s Desert Island Discs choices
Today Ed Miliband is on Desert Island Discs – so what has he picked? Here are the 8…
The government must not cave-in to the big energy companies (again)
On Thursday morning we woke up to the front page of The Sun newspaper proclaiming that the Prime…
24 hour tube travel is great news – but Boris is using it as a smokescreen to cut jobs
There is mixed news for the 50% of Londoners who use public transport to get to work today.…
How do we stop more cyclists from dying on our roads?
6 cyclists have been killed in London in just under two weeks. The capital is shocked, and desperate…
Tessa Jowell is stepping down as an MP – here’s the message she sent to her CLP
Dame Tessa Jowell – who served as a minister throughout Labour’s thirteen years in government – is stepping…
More borrowing and fewer nurses – let’s judge Cameron on his record
At the last General Election, when Labour warned that the Tories in power would cut the number of…
The government are planning to make millions of people unable to vote, disengaged and unrepresented
The implementation of the Individual Electoral Register is the biggest change to the way we enable people to…
