‘Our regional theatres are engines of growth. Labour should help them thrive’
Growing up in Norfolk, where my mother ran the local arts centre in King’s Lynn, I saw the…
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Would you take Tony back? Or Gordon? State of the Party, June 2012
Right on schedule the State of the Party survey is back – your No.1 monthly barometer of Labour…
A new welfare bargain
Welfare is Labour’s toxic issue. Recent evidence comes from a YouGov poll for Prospect: 74 per cent agree…
The Second Chamber should represent vocation not place
Parliament represents the people. But the House of Commons represents us in only one dimension of our lives.…
Helping Outsiders Become the Insiders
When I returned to Parliament after the 2010 General Election I resolved to try and tackle the culture…
PMQs verdict: George Osborne defeats David Cameron
Today George Osborne helped Ed Miliband achieve something he’s often struggled to do on his own in the…
Do the government have any idea what they’re doing?
Sometimes you just have to ask yourself – do the government have any idea what they’re doing? Yesterday’s…
Chloe Smith’s car crash Newsnight interview
If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s worth watching just to see how badly an interview can go……
Tony Blair’s Evening Standard Interview – the highlights
Tony Blair is guest editing the Evening Standard today, to mark the five year anniversary of him stepping…
Five years ago today…
First this… And then this…
We became spectators while New Labour dominated our party. Now we are back.
Unite’s Conference confirmed our new Political strategy today. An open and honest debate by delegates passed an open…
