News & Insight

17 December 2014

Around 15 years ago a new tribe entered our lexicon: the NEETs, young people who are not in education, employment or training. Reducing their number was a priority for the Labour government of the day. The Social Exclusion Unit was...

17 December 2014

‘Trust and empowerment’ should be key principles for Labour’s new agenda for public services. Trust and power should be spread downwards and outwards to citizens, employees, public service institutions and sub-national government. Each level, from Whitehall to the frontline employee,...

16 December 2014

The fallout from Tristram Hunt’s recent announcement to restrict tax breaks to private schools unless they adequately support the state sector demonstrates that Labour has its work cut out to convince the public (including many of its core voters) that...

1 December 2014

Earlier this year, Oxfam research found that the five richest families in the UK are wealthier than the poorest 20 per cent of the population combined. That means that just a handful of families hold more wealth than 12.5 million...

25 November 2014

Quick on the heels of his ‘fight back’ speech at Senate House, which was peppered with references to inequality, low pay, and zero-hours contracts, on Monday Ed Miliband returned to the subject of insecurity, exploitation and unfairness at work by...

24 November 2014

The Rochester & Strood by-election may not prove to have been especially damaging to Labour, despite the hoo-ha over Emily Thornberry's tweet. The party's disappointing but not humiliating third place was partly due to two different streams of defectors from...