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Over twenty weeks, Nick Pecorelli will be outlining 20 ways to make Britain better. In last week’s column I set out the case for a more flexible Child Benefit, part of which could be drawn down to pay for childcare in the early years of…
Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves are two of the highest-fliers from the 2010 intake, and have both done enough to make it to the Shadow Cabinet table. But they don't look especially alike, do they? Well they do if you're Tory Defence Minister…
Rachel Reeves’s announcement last week that Labour are considering increasing JSA payments for those with four years’ worth of National Insurance contributions won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the development of Labour’s…
There's decidedly mixed news for Ed Miliband from the latest LabourList weekly survey. Whilst the vast majority of you believe that Labour will be the largest party come 2015 - less than half believe that Miliband will win a majority next…
Labour's big announcement on welfare today is the proposed introduction of new skills courses in English and maths for people at risk of long-term unemployment. The idea is that around 10% of new unemployed people (and even more who are…
So, after 3 months in the job, today, Rachel Reeves made her first major speech on our social security system. If you live your life with a long term illness or disability, living in terror at the coalition’s brutal changes to benefits and…
Speak to IPPR, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Rachel Reeves said: I'd like to thank you all for coming, and thank IPPR for hosting us, and also for all the excellent work they do to inform and stimulate thinking and debate…
That's a serious question - because there's a piece in today's paper that plenty of people in the Labour Party seem to have taken seriously. It claims that Labour wants to "take away benefits from young jobless". That Reeves is making a…
Today's reports of an astonishing 60,000 households with carers being hit by the Bedroom Tax are another damaging blow for David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith. In June David Cameron said, "They (carers) do an amazing job. If they stopped…
Anyone who says politicians are all the same would be well advised to watch yesterday’s opposition day debate on food banks in Parliament. The Tory Work and Pensions Minister claimed food banks are a sign of success, as if they could ever…
In the chamber this afternoon, Rachel Reeves has taken IDS apart over the failure of Universal Credit. Granted an Urgent Question, Reeves asked the following: Mr Speaker, on 5 September, the Secretary of State told the House “We will…
Labour MPs showed their anger over Tory proposals to axe benefits for under 25s at a debate organised by the Society of Labour Lawyers and Young Labour Lawyers last night. Lisa Nandy MP said David Cameron was “demonising young people in the…
