Comment Three years on from the 2019 election, Labour can win again in Blackpool South Three years ago today, I was trudging around the streets of Blackpool – for what would be the final… Andrew Bettridge 12th December, 2022, 9:36 am
News TUC demands U-turn on scrapping Union Learning Fund ahead of spending review The TUC has urged the government to use its spending review this week to U-turn on the decision… Elliot Chappell 24th November, 2020, 12:01 am
Comment Scrapping the Union Learning Fund is a spiteful act of economic vandalism ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’, as the saying goes. Certainly don’t scrap it. But that’s what… Gordon Marsden 20th November, 2020, 3:48 pm
Comment My apprenticeship with Gordon Marsden MP This week is National Apprenticeship Week and as an apprentice for the shadow minister for apprenticeships, Gordon Marsden,… Adam Evenson 6th March, 2018, 8:53 am
Comment Gordon Marsden: National education service will trigger a revolution in learning The three-fold repetition of ideas has long been a powerful tool in politics. Think of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address… Gordon Marsden 24th January, 2018, 10:00 am
Comment Gordon Marsden: Let’s use education to inaugurate a new era of social mobility Higher education, and particularly tuition fees, have not been off the agenda since Theresa May called her general… Gordon Marsden 26th September, 2017, 3:00 pm
News Sign up students to vote and boost democracy, Cat Smith tells universities Labour is contacting every university leader in the country to encourage them to get even more students to… Emma Bean 21st August, 2017, 12:04 pm
Comment Aspiration is a story, not a slogan As Labour soul-searches for new leadership and policies, the word ‘aspiration’ has swirled around ever more densely. Though… Gordon Marsden 29th May, 2015, 11:39 am