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Congratulations have poured in from senior Labour figures for a town councillor who has been named as the party's latest key seat candidate. Neil Puttick was chosen to take on the Tories in Macclesfield at the end of yesterday's selection…
Crisis, what crisis? The tabloid headline used to pillory the Labour government of 1979 could well be dusted down and applied to Theresa May's administration today. As May plodded through another pedestrian performance at PMQs, with the…
As we have been warning for the last seven years, this Conservative Government has created a recruitment crisis in education. Figures out last Thursday showed that applicants to teacher training courses have dropped by a third. If this…
In 2017 Britain remains a deeply divided nation. Those divisions take many forms: class, income, gender, race and education. In England, in particular, there are substantial inequalities in educational attainment which are linked to social…
A veteran local councillor has seen off a challenge from a longstanding ally of John McDonnell to be named as Labour's candidate in Rossendale and Darwen again. Alyson Barnes, who stood in the Lancashire seat in June, was picked at the…
The Harvey Weinstein scandal has sent shockwaves rippling across the Atlantic and they have now reached parliament. For the first time, light is shining into the darkest corners and what we can see is, quite frankly, very ugly. The fact…
There are a million reasons why the government must take urgent action on domestic violence. Every one of those reasons is a woman or a girl in this country who has experienced domestic violence or abuse within the last year. Domestic…
Angela Rayner has said she is happy to sit on the Commons benches with Jared O'Mara despite condemning his online posts as "absolutely abhorrent". The shadow education secretary said O'Mara had changed his views in the 15 years since he…
In my maiden speech, I said that parliament was an intimidating institution, not to me personally, but structurally. Just over a century ago, parliament was off limits to my class and my gender. We couldn’t even vote for it, let alone enter…
How often are the stories of working class women not told as strongly as they should? How a woman could change the course of history, or of what impact she had directly upon your life. what about sacrifices she made nearly 100 years ago to…
Teachers across the country will be returning to the classroom this week after a summer that – thanks to this Tory government – will have been fraught with anxiety and financial difficulty. Over the weekend, I released new analysis showing…
Every time a position opens in the Labour Party, be it leader, minister, CLP officer, or in this case, leader of Scottish Labour, the question is asked: where are the women? It’s often followed up with, "how can we get women into positions…
