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Okay, I’m getting confused. Explain this one to me. Today we get the chance – the historic chance - to begin the process of removing once and for all a totemic, emblematic symbol of British inequality. Yet Labour MPs seem to be turning…
We currently face the prospect of an Act of Parliament coming into force within a few months that will change the composition of the House of Lords, introducing a badly flawed party-based electoral system for most of its members, and taking…
Like many Scots, each week I make the journey between Glasgow and London, and when I step off the train at Euston, I don’t feel like I'm in a foreign country. Yes – home is a long way away, but there's a reason we call these four countries…
Despite Labour gains in council elections last week, the low turnout and the rejection of elected mayors should come as a disappointment to the party. Local elections, in which two in three eligible voters did not vote, illustrate the…
Andrew Adonis claims to be ‘deadly serious’ about his proposal to relocate the House of Lords to a midlands or northern city. London, he writes in a letter to the Spectator, is ‘New York, Washington and LA rolled into one, which is…
Gisela Stuart on Labour's MP/Mayoral mess: "The point was to devolve power, but Labour's response is old-fashioned and backward-looking"
We've already heard earlier today about the Manchester Central by-election (set for November), but there could be a spate of them on the same date. A few weeks ago we talked about Birmingham where either Liam Byrne or Gisela Stuart could…
After a year that has seen a landslide win for the SNP, a new Leader and Deputy Leader for Scottish Labour and the start of a battle against the Nationalists' bid to separate Scotland from the rest of the UK, Ed Miliband addressed a…
Speaking at Scottish Labour conference today, Douglas Alexander will urge Labour to consider the transfer of further fiscal powers from Westminster to Holyrood. However what Alexander is thought to be proposing is known as "Devo Plus"…
During the recent Scottish Labour leadership contest, a friendly journalist asked me my views on so-called “Devolution Max” or, as I had dubbed it in the House of Commons last October, “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Independence”. Devo Max is a…
David Cameron went to a porridge factory this week to argue against Scottish independence, in an attempt to capture the essence of Robert the Bruce’s speech in favour of independence before the Battle of Bannockburn, which famously took…
A report published this week by the Local Data Company on the number of empty shops on our high streets highlights further the North-South divide, as well the dire economic situation many small and medium sized businesses are in. The…
