Hammond – the man who confused Saddam Hussein with Bashar al-Assad – is Cameron’s new foreign secretary
Although we can’t yet be certain of who’s set to come into Cameron’s fold in this reshuffle, the…
Rachel Reeves
Labour’s big hitters unite behind local government devolution plans
Today Ed Miliband is unveiling the Local Government Innovation Taskforce in Stevenage. It doesn’t sound like an exciting document,…
Cruddas is right: there’s something seriously wrong with Labour’s strategy
There have been a couple of worrying bits of news dribbling out of the Labour policy machine over…
Labour will reduce the role of outsourcing companies, says Reeves
If Labour win the general election next May, the Labour leadership have announced that they will reduce the…
Four steps Labour would take to fix Universal Credit
Eight months ago we set up an independent group to examine whether the government’s flagship welfare reform programme,…
Progress through patriotism: How Labour can combat the nationalist right
Recently I’ve been attending a series of Young Fabians events that look at the role of patriotism and…
Rachel Reeves is right – we’re losing many of “our voters”. So what are we doing about it?
Rachel Reeves spoke at a “One Nation” conference last week – and made an important observation regarding the…
Labour brings fresh support to collective savings
Coverage this morning of the speech on pensions by Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pension secretary, focused on the extension…
Reeves looks to bring 1.5 million low-paid workers into workplace pensions
In a speech to the Resolution Foundation this morning, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Rachel…
When it comes to failing government projects, Universal Credit is in a class of its own
The revelation that Iain Duncan Smith managed to get a special category invented to describe the status of Universal…
