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In an open letter to Liam Fox this afternoon, shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy has urged his Tory counterpart to "put an end to the emerging pattern of Ministerial ambivalence towards UK manufacturing and make a commitment which could…
By Chris Williamson MP I still have vivid memories of September 11th 2001. I remember switching on the car radio after leaving a meeting of the community legal advice services and tuning in to a special news broadcast. As I listened to the…
By Darren Clifford The promise from defence secretary, Liam Fox, of "Jam Tomorrow" with his commencement of crippling cuts to the Armed Forces that will eventually amount to 12,000 posts for an already overstretched MOD is claimed to be the…
By Luke Bozier / @lukebozier 2015 or 2020 will see a return to power for the Labour Party - if we get our acts together in the meantime and present a winning team and manifesto to the electorate. That government will inherit a foreign…
By Jim Murphy MP / @jimmurphymp In today's world the prosperity, security, liberty and civil liberties of those at home cannot be separated from events beyond our borders. The era of a global recession and the global threat of terrorism…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk David Cameron wants to enshrine the military covenant in law. This can only be a good thing. Putting aside questions as to what should be in such a covenant, and why it took the PM so long to announce this…
By James Mills / @JamesMills1984 The Defence Secretary Liam Fox has had a rather busy week. He was only in Washington on Monday, but managed to jet back in time to give evidence to a Select Committee on Wednesday and attend a lunch with…
By Dan McCurry / @dan_mccurry A ten-strong team of intelligence, signals and logistics experts will help set up an opposition headquarters to take on Colonel Gaddafi's forces, but the government denies claims of "mission creep". According…
Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy has responded to the government announcing it is reconsidering the defence review, saying: "This seems to be more about politics than defence. I worry it's smoke and mirrors. They say they are…
By Brian Barder / @brianlb David Cameron had earned generous tributes to his success in securing a tough Security Council resolution on Libya, authorising an air war against Gaddafi: but why did he (and most of the media and the chattering…
By Adam Harrison The Progress Political Weekend at Stoke Rochford Hall in Lincolnshire - a familiar venue to many trade unionists and student activists - was kicked off by the first keynote speech from shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy…
By Darrell Goodliffe Looking objectively at the situation in Libya, we can say straight away - it is not Iraq or Afghanistan. In both cases, military intervention aimed at 'regime change' substituted itself for the democratic movement of…
