We must not let excessive workload drive teachers out of the profession
Dear Caroline, Thanks for your letter and congratulations on qualifying to teach and on getting your first teaching…
Lucy Powell
Dear Lucy Powell, I’m a newly qualified teacher who’d like time to teach
Dear Lucy Powell, You’ve just started your role in education. Me too – I qualified in June, and…
New grammar school will harm social mobility says Powell
Lucy Powell has attacked the government’s decision to approve the first selective school in 50 years, accusing David…
Powell says Labour will bring academies under control of local authorities
New Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell has promised that academies and free schools will not close under a…
One Million More
The news that Labour campaigners have had more than four million doorstep conversations with people in Britain since…
Lucy Powell writes to PM over “repeated falsehoods” from Grant Shapps
Tory Chairman Grant Shapps is making headlines for all the wrong reasons today, after the Guardian found a…
Get on board with Labour’s offer to women
Right, let’s get this out the way: the reaction to the ‘pink van’ was somewhat predictable, and could…
Labour’s women’s campaign – its strengths and its weaknesses explained
Today, Labour are launching their women’s campaign – the biggest they, or any other British political party, have…
When families succeed Britain succeeds
As someone who has tried and failed in the past to persuade their husband to take additional paternity…
Who are the eight people sitting at Labour’s general election “top table”?
Tomorrow Labour’s General Election campaign goes up a gear as the Labour leader, his office and several senior…
