What was in John Healey’s Budget?
Chancellor John Healey has delivered his first Budget to the House of Commons. It showed some progress on…
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Give activists a #labourbreak
It isn’t much fun being a Labour activist right now. I suspect being a Lib Dem activist gives…
Andy Burnham retains MP of the Month crown
He has topped the shadow cabinet league table three months in a row – but now Andy Burnham…
There can be no true republic without socialism
Not one of France’s five republics has truly fulfilled the ideals of the 1789 Revolution. The First and…
I am still haunted by the ghosts of 1992
Like many geekier political folk I spent a lot of Easter Monday glued to the BBC Parliament channel…
Andy Burnham on the next step of Labour’s NHS campaign
Earlier this week I spoke briefly to Andy Burnham about the next step of Labour’s campaign against the…
Shadow Cabinet ranking – Burnham reigns supreme
Andy Burnham reigns supreme at the top of the shadow cabinet league table for the third successive month.…
Don’t let Boris Johnson tell you that the mayor can’t improve Londoners’ lives
Two weeks ago, the Conservative government launched an attack on Londoners’ living standards. Four hundred thousand London pensioners…
The party is trying to treat the symptoms while the disease rages on
Yesterday it was The Guardian. Today it’s The Times. Suddenly the media have developed a fascination with the…
Old-fashioned and backward-looking
Gisela Stuart on Labour’s MP/Mayoral mess: “The point was to devolve power, but Labour’s response is old-fashioned and…
Southern Comfort – Bromley and Thurrock
Shadow cabinet meeting in Bromley for first time and Bromley girl Rachel Reeves had some of us up…
