Labour’s compulsory skills training for the unemployed – would it work?
Labour’s big announcement on welfare today is the proposed introduction of new skills courses in English and maths for people…
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Labour and welfare – Merely direction of travel so far
So, after 3 months in the job, today, Rachel Reeves made her first major speech on our social…
Rachel Reeves speech: A One Nation Approach to Social Security – Taking the Next Steps
Speak to IPPR, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Rachel Reeves said: I’d like to thank…
Why Labour is the party of work
Today I’m setting out how reforms to earn our way out of the cost-of-living crisis and social security…
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…
Benefits Street won’t add much to the current debate about welfare
I’ve been the MP for Birmingham Ladywood for three and a half years. I grew up in the…
An open letter to David Cameron
I can hardly bear it any more. Day after day after day. Terrible stories of suffering, despair and…
John Major is talking some sense – Labour are lucky Cameron is ignoring him
John Major is a decent man. He’s not destined to be one of the great leaders of our…
18 months of Labour Welfare policy in 1 article
I’m sick and I’m tired. I’m exhausted and so are the legions of welfare warriors who have attempted…
5 things we learned from the Hunt/Reeves interviews today
There has been considerable interest today in interventions from Rachel Reeves and Tristram Hunt today on their new…
