The history of the EMA – and why it’s worth defending
By Carl Rowlands It might surprise many to discover that the Educational Maintenance Allowance was first suggested by…
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Let Labour clear the way
By Jessica Asato / @jessica_asato “The House of Lords is useless and dangerous to the people”; so said…
Lords Reform: Time to Agree with Nick
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting With some honourable exceptions, members of the Parliamentary Labour Party behaved disgracefully in…
Don’t trade off bednets and body armour
By Richard Darlington Letters from Liam Fox to David Cameron have an uncanny habit of leaking. Last time,…
Plugging the policy vacuum
By Sarah Hayward / @sarah_hayward Three problems have become increasingly clear to me over the last few weeks…
Reforming the Lords
By Hilary Benn MP Last week, we had the first national referendum in 35 years. Ostensibly about the…
Who says people are disillusioned with politics?
By Rowenna Davis Labour suffered some big defeats last week, but in one small corner of Southwark, South…
We need a long hard look at what Scotland under Labour should look like
By James Mills / @jamesmills1984 A political hero of mine is the great late Donald Dewar, who once…
We forgot who the enemy is and it cost us
By Steve Gummer Standing in the queue yesterday outside my polling booth and contemplating AV’s likely defeat I…
A vote for AV is a vote for Labour’s values
By Ben Bradshaw MP / @benpbradshaw If there is anything the Labour Party has stood for since its…
