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…
welfare
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…
Through the Looking Glass? Labour and the One Nation Tory Tradition on Welfare
In 1950, a group of ambitious young Tory MPs got together to produce a pamphlet entitled One Nation:…
Should Labour MPs criticise Thatcher and her record today? The cases for and against – Media roundup: April 10th, 2013
Subscribers to our morning email get the best of LabourList – including the Media and blog round up…
In the bleak welfare winter, there are some glimmers of hope…
Welfare has barely been out of the headlines of late. The last few weeks alone have seen the…
For an honest debate on welfare spending; we need a Department for OAPs
It has been a historic week for our welfare system. Seven million families with at least one person…
Ed Miliband interview: Part one – on immigration, tuition fees, housing, Lord Ahmed and much more
On Thursday I travelled with Ed Miliband and his community organising “guru” Arnie Graf to Carlisle and Preston…
Britain’s better than this
By Pilgrim Tucker Unite has had enough. It needs to be said – yes, there are welfare cheats.…
