Time to pay school support staff their due
The debate about schools, pupil attainment and changes to our education system rages on. Yet there is one…
Inequality
My bill to make work pay in Low Wage Britain
Today I will be speaking in Parliament on behalf of a woman called Catherine. She lives nearly 200 miles…
Labour will reform the water industry to help those who can’t afford to pay their bills
Today marks 25 years since the water industry was privatised. In aide of this Labour have announced that…
Tackling inequality: the gateway to a shared future in Northern Ireland
The moral compass at the heart of Ed Miliband’s vision for the future of our country is a…
Young people are ‘the new face of poverty’ – what are politicians doing about it?
It feels as if UK politics repeating a very tired story. A political drama fills newspaper front pages,…
Help Labour give people protection from predators in our property market
Everyone has horror stories about buying, selling or renting a house. All too often the villain is the…
Miliband: Labour will close down job agencies that exploit workers
Ed Miliband will pledge to close down job agencies that exploit workers and break the law on the…
Unpaid internships aren’t just bad for young people, they hurt us all
It won’t take a trawl of internet job boards to find one of the most frustrating barriers to…
Labour must tackle unpaid internships and inequality of opportunity
Sixteen years ago as a graduate doing admin work in an office in Edinburgh I applied for and…
How a Labour government could close the gender pay gap
Last week I wrote three blogs about the gender pay gap. One day after the other I wrote…
