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As I write, it has been two years since I was elected to the House of Commons as the MP for my home community of Cynon Valley. I knew before I arrived that Westminster was a bubble, divorced from the real world, but I was not prepared for…
We lead two very different organisations that share one core conviction. Power to Change supports and advocates for businesses run by local people for the benefit of their local community. The Cares Family helps people find connection in a…
Keir Starmer would be forgiven for heading down to Brighton for Labour conference this weekend feeling slightly more optimistic than he may have felt for the last 18 months. The furore over National Insurance and the Conservatives’ drop in…
Dan Jarvis, the Labour MP for Barnsley Central and current mayor of South Yorkshire, has announced that he will not be contesting the next mayoral election in May 2022 but will continue to serve as a parliamentarian. The MP was selected as…
What is radical federalism, what would it look like and should Labour champion it? This is what Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin, Welsh Labour's Mick Antoniw MS and Professor Nicola McEwen discussed this…
Labour launched its policy review ‘‘Stronger Together: A Better Future for Britain’ – our roadmap to bring Britain together and deliver a fairer, more secure future” last month. Little has been heard of it since. So, perhaps there is time…
The Conservative government introduced the health and social care bill a decade ago. I was working in the NHS at the time, and we expected change after the 2010 election but there had been broad political consensus on the direction of…
Andy Burnham told a parliamentary committee this morning that if the Greater Manchester mayor were ever to return to national politics as an MP, "it would only be to champion fundamental constitutional reform of England". Appearing before…
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden last week provoked a new front in the ‘culture war’, proposing that national arts, culture and heritage institutions should be as representative of people in the North and Midlands as they are of a…
There is no disputing that Scottish Labour fought a positive election campaign and that Anas Sarwar brought both charm and authority to Labour’s challenge. It has been argued that if he had been given more than the ten weeks he had to make…
St George's Day provides an annual reminder to Labour members that many of the key challenges the party faces in our mountain-climb back to power are specifically English in nature. For those still in doubt about that reality, just take a…
The Holyrood battle on May 6th is a “pandemic election”, Anas Sarwar has declared. That might sound like an obvious thing to say: the coronavirus crisis has been squashed down after tough lockdowns across the UK, but we’re still in the…
