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This week David Cameron announced an extension of the Troubled Families programme. Since then, the right wing press have come out hard against our country's poor, marginalised, and socially excluded, repeatedly using the dangerous term…
The front page of the Daily Mirror this morning carries the news that Nick Clegg now opposes the Bedroom Tax - begging the question, with less than a year until election day, how stupid does he think we are? However, George Eaton at the New…
There have been a couple of worrying bits of news dribbling out of the Labour policy machine over the last couple of days. The first is the proposal, announced to coincide with Armed Forces Day, that Labour would make it a specific criminal…
If Labour win the general election next May, the Labour leadership have announced that they will reduce the role of large outsourcing companies in providing public services - particularly in relation to delivering the government's Work…
Eight months ago we set up an independent group to examine whether the government's flagship welfare reform programme, Universal Credit, could be saved. Led by Kieran Quinn, leader of Tameside council, the 'Universal Credit Rescue…
Recently I’ve been attending a series of Young Fabians events that look at the role of patriotism and national identity in Labour’s One Nation vision. This discussion could not be better timed. As support for UKIP’s anti-immigration and…
Before the Queen's Speech last week, six LabourList contributors set out one bill each that they would include if they had a choice. Given there were only eleven policies in the actual Queen's Speech, it means LabourList has almost as much…
Rachel Reeves spoke at a "One Nation" conference last week - and made an important observation regarding the potential peril that Labour faces. Here's an extract of what she said: ‘Traditional voters, who perhaps at times we took for…
Coverage this morning of the speech on pensions by Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pension secretary, focused on the extension of auto-enrolment to 1.5 million extra workers. But in the long-run the more significant announcement might…
In a speech to the Resolution Foundation this morning, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Rachel Reeves will announce that the party is considering proposals to increase pension provision. The changes would benefit as many as…
The revelation that Iain Duncan Smith managed to get a special category invented to describe the status of Universal Credit in a government report on Major Projects that was conveniently released on the day of the local election results is…
If you are reading this, count yourself lucky; you are not one of the 1 in 5 adults lacking minimum literacy skills. And with 75 million children out of school across the globe, there is a huge amount of work to be done to improve basic…
