Labour shouldn’t accept the Tories’ false dichotomy of deficit rises or benefit cuts
“We won’t oppose the household benefit cap [or] what [the Conservatives] brought forward in relation to restricting benefits…
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Are the Tories planning to push through anti-trade unions laws?
The Conservatives could put forward new legislation to clamp down on strikes as early as next week, according…
We need to see a lot more passion and a little less caution from the people who want to be our next Prime Minister
We’re about a third of the way through the Labour Leadership contest, billed as our big chance to…
The tough choices Labour must make
This column isn’t going to win me any friends on the left but it’s about time Labour got…
“He says he stands up for working people. What he does makes them worse off.” – Full text of Harriet Harman’s Budget response
The Chancellor is said to be liberated without the ties of coalition holding him back. Mr Deputy Speaker,…
Labour needs to speak the language of ethnic minorities if it wants to win 2020
What does 20% mean to you? On it’s own it is nothing – a mere solitary figure –…
Soft on welfare? The challenge of a popular welfare policy that works
We are being told that Labour lost votes through being seen as “too soft” on welfare. But we…
Scotland has a housing crisis and it demands radical solutions
It’s vital that Scottish Labour goes into next year’s Holyrood elections with a bold and ambitious manifesto. Few…
Labour’s leadership hopefuls need to ditch ‘aspiration’ and start talking about ‘meritocracy’
As the post-mortem of Labour’s election defeat takes place in the midst of the party’s leadership election, observers…
“I’m the only person in this race that isn’t ‘Continuity Miliband'”, says Liz Kendall
Liz Kendall has argued that she is the only person in the Labour leadership race who isn’t ‘Continuity…
