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Last week’s Budget by Philip Hammond was a disappointment on several fronts. Britain faces another 17 long years of falling incomes, rising debt and low productivity plus all the uncertainty his government has created over Brexit – the…
Voting has opened in the crunch elections for three new member places on Labour's ruling body. As ballots go out today, Eddie Izzard, one of the candidates, published a video in which he appealed to activists to help him propel Jeremy…
One of the things that helped Gordon Brown's rise was a constant desire to modernise. When he was just coming up as an MP, it was his desire to modernise the Labour Party, a task he undertook with Tony Blair and one that led to…
London Labour conference, which took place this weekend, was well attended and on this occasion held over two days. It was, however, marred at times by some fractious debating. The issue of contention was a series of rule changes which…
The Labour Party democracy review will not be just a rehash of reports carried out in the past by leaders but instead represents the most significant opportunity in a generation for activists to remake the party structures and culture. The…
Earlier this year I received a wave of hateful online abuse and harassment after a video of me speaking at the European Parliament went viral. On one hand, the online world is merely a reflection of the state of our society; on the other…
Sooner or later the government is going to have to listen to the wake-up calls from the early years sector - or it may be too late. In recent years a higher proportion of income for providers has started to come from government. The most…
Mr Deputy Speaker, this Budget has been an advertisement for just how out-of-touch this Government is with the reality of people’s lives. Pay is now lower for most people than it was in 2010 and wages are now falling again. Economic growth…
This was the Budget when Brexit came home to bite. Growth forecasts downgraded for the next three years underlined the scale of the challenge facing the Tories - and the opportunity for Labour to press home its own argument on the economy…
This is part of a series of articles in the run-up to the Budget on Wednesday. The creative industries are one of the great British economic success stories. We’re not only a world leader in culture and creative output, our creative…
