8 things we learned about Labour last week
Last week was a big one for Labour, with major speeches from both Ed Balls and Ed Miliband.…
welfare
Ed has assured us that “Scrounger Rhetoric” is off the menu
When I heard Ed was to give a “big” welfare speech, my heart sank. Not again, I thought.…
Labour’s welfare cap is a largely symbolic gimmick – but it works as a communication device
It would be easy to be dismissive of Labour’s proposed welfare cap on policy grounds. It would be…
Full Text: Ed Miliband Speech – “A One Nation Plan for Social Security Reform”
Speaking at Newham Dockside, Ed Miliband said: Introduction It is great to be here in Newham. Where a…
Ignore the media spin, this is the welfare speech Ed Miliband will actually give today
I received several emails and text messages last night from Labour activists and even a few MPs, all…
North East MPs – including a former Chief Whip – criticise plans for regionalised benefits
Several North Eastern Labour MPs – including a former Chief Whip – have threatened to rebel against the…
The Labour leadership’s screeching u-turn on universal benefits
Today, in a speech at Thomson Reuters, Ed Balls will announce a shift from the party away from…
We must challenge the biggest welfare myth of all
Who can forget Gordon Brown’s meeting with Gillian Duffy? Nothing has come close in recent years to symbolising…
Just a step to the right: changing attitudes to poverty and welfare
If, like approximately 99% of the British people, you haven’t spent all week obsessing about Britain’s position in…
Sorting the welfare reality from the welfare myths
The first time the bus leaves for a school trip that you can’t afford to go on is…
