Comment How to win the Labour leadership contest On 12th September 1995, Tony Blair went down to Brighton to address the TUC. Although Labour was by… Stefan Stern 13th July, 2015, 8:19 am
Comment Yvette Cooper’s revolution for supporting families is right for Labour I admired the strength of many of my fellow former parliamentary candidates, who felt ready to write about… Veronica King 11th July, 2015, 9:52 am
Comment How can we deliver a strong NHS with decreasing resources? An overworked doctor, sweating in his scrubs on the hottest day of the year, collapses gratefully into a… Martin Edobor 10th July, 2015, 3:57 pm
Comment The Government may have pledged to spend 2% of GDP on Defence, but the devil is in the detail Very few expected any of the headlines generated by this week’s Budget to focus on Defence. But let… Kevan Jones 10th July, 2015, 9:16 am
Comment 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… Olivia Bailey 9th July, 2015, 3:52 pm
Comment A truly independent BBC must be owned by its licence fee payers Monday’s deal between the BBC and Government to hand the Corporation responsibility for funding TV licences for over-75s… Karin Christiansen 9th July, 2015, 12:37 pm
Comment Osborne may have stolen Labour’s rhetoric on non-doms, but his proposals are seriously flawed The Tories are starting to make a habit of stealing Labour’s tax clothing. First, came Labour’s proposals for… Jolyon Maugham 8th July, 2015, 3:05 pm
News “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,… 8th July, 2015, 2:22 pm
Polling Voters strongly oppose cuts to welfare and top rate of tax A majority of people oppose the Tories plans to slash the welfare budget by £12 billion and reduce… 8th July, 2015, 12:01 pm
News Labour leadership hopefuls pass judgement on Osborne’s Sunday trading proposals George Osborne has announced that shops in England and Wales may be allowed to stay open for longer… 7th July, 2015, 5:55 pm