‘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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Miliband recorded calling for “fight back” against hostile newspapers at donor dinner
According to a recording obtained by the Financial Times, Ed Miliband told an audience of party donors at…
Why can’t the Lib Dems tell the truth about party funding?
Today the Lobbying Bill starts its journey into the Lords. It’s symptomatic of this tawdry bill that it…
Why we’re working with ConHome and The Taxpayers’ Alliance…
Imagine a law so bad, that it sees LabourList and ConHome united against it. Imagine it’s so bad…
An absolutely heartbreaking letter from an 8 year old to her MP
Stephen Timms – MP for East Ham and Shadow Employment Minister – tweeted this letter he’d received at…
The market is broken
Britain is currently in the throes of an energy crisis. The decision by British Gas and N Power…
More Tory dog-whistling
General Election 2015 is now on the horizon. One of the consequence of the fixed term Parliament –…
This isn’t one of *those* pieces…
You know how political types pretend to be normal by writing about what they realised when they were…
Who trusts Cameron to keep the lights on?
So Britain’s first major nuclear power station construction in a generation – at Hinckley – is to come…
Should Labour pledge to abolish taxes on energy bills?
Government charges on energy bills help fund the UK’s switch to renewable energy, and also subsidise heating and…
Andrew Mitchell’s slow puncture still far from being mended
Were you standing near the junction of Downing Street and Whitehall at around 7.30 pm on Wednesday 19th…
