Iain Duncan Smith’s solution to zero hour contracts? Change the name
Shadow Work and Pensions Minister Rachel Reeves has this morning welcomed the latest fall in unemployment, with the…
Unemployment
A jobs guarantee will give long-term unemployed people a real chance to earn and to learn
By Rachel Reeves MP and Stephen Timms MP To list all the things that David Cameron and George…
Khan reaffirms the place of race on Labour’s agenda
The Labour Party hasn’t talked too much about race in this Parliament. After over a decade of equal…
Why do people fall for media spin about Labour and welfare?
That’s a serious question – because there’s a piece in today’s paper that plenty of people in the…
We need a radical new approach to tackling youth unemployment
In his speech to the Labour conference, Ed Miliband argued that young people who leave school and find…
Labour Conference 2013 is the Cost of Living conference – but what does that mean? And will it work?
It won’t be a particular surprise to anyone who has watched Labour’s messaging shift over the summer towards…
Generation ‘Y can’t I get a job’??
By Sarah Webster and Joel Mullan ‘If I was a politician I would think that young people had…
PMQs verdict: Cameron wins the final PMQs of the year – but at what cost?
The temperature was hot and tempers were hotter in the chamber today. The final PMQs of a parliamentary…
Rebalancing Act
The downturn that followed the 2008 Crash has been the most severe since the Great Depression, and the…
We are the party of work. Labour – the clue is in the name
Last week the facts were laid out for all to see. Across the piece this Conservative led-Government has…
