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On another St George’s Day, England’s government is creeping onto the agenda. It is not English identity that is driving change, but the awareness that England is simply so badly governed. Inequality within and between regions is…
Of all the miracles said to have been performed by patron saints, there can’t have been many described as “superfluous”. That was the description given by Welsh historian John Davies about St David’s miracle of raising a hill beneath…
Whilst rail dominates the world of transport – in budget, column inches and industrial strife – the quiet crisis that millions are dealing with is the near-total collapse of our local bus services. Millions of people use the bus at least…
Scotland needs Labour, Labour needs Scotland. And never has Scotland needed Labour more than now. Nothing anywhere is working as it should. Every single service is creaking or breaking. Education, health, social services, ferries. And in…
Lisa Nandy is expected to declare that the UK's political system "must change or die" and outline Labour's ambition for a "new relationship of equals" between national and local government. In a speech to the Convention of the North in…
Arguably the most radical aspect of Labour’s policy vision so far has been the party’s commitment to transform the way power is exercised in this country – both economically and politically. The promise of a new 'take back control' bill was…
Lisa Nandy has announced that Labour would scrap the government's 'levelling up' missions, declaring that it is "fundamentally dishonest" to introduce measures of success without "even the faintest idea" of how to achieve them. Addressing…
The Tories’ recent £2 bus fare cap was billed as a helping hand with cost-of-living pressures. But it’s more than that. It's an admission that transport inequalities between our major cities and our towns, villages and rural areas are at…
The 'take back control' bill is the product of Labour strategists seeking to add political heft to the constitutional reforms proposed by Gordon Brown last month. Few can argue that the slogan is one of the most successful within recent…
Keir Starmer has pledged to "spread control out of Westminster" through a 'take back control' bill to be introduced in Labour's first term in government. In his new year speech, delivered in East London this morning, the Labour leader…
As Labour consults the public about the distribution of power, the real debate must be whether the Brown commission goes anywhere near far enough. As Adam Lent has warned, Labour will fail if it clings to the current centralisation of power…
Gordon Brown’s report on the future of the UK constitution has been attacked as a distraction. Labour, it is argued, should focus on more immediate matters, such as the cost-of-living crisis and growing backlogs in the NHS. This was the…
