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Adonis report should address the innovation gender gap
1 July 2014
As Lord Adonis publishes his regional growth review today, it is very good news that Labour will devolve responsibility from central government for the spending of at least £6bn a year on transport, housing, welfare and infrastructure to boost regional...
Continue ReadingLabour's Fightback
28 June 2014
In the last 18 months the Labour party has announced a wide range of eyecatching policies. No longer can critics claim that the party has nothing to say. But many of those announcements are ‘doorstep’ pledges designed to win Labour the next election...
Continue ReadingEducation and Labour’s social mission: Tristram Hunt Fabian Society Lecture
24 June 2014
Thank you. It is, as ever, a great pleasure to be speaking from the platform of the affiliated Fabian Society. And a tremendous honour too to be invited to give a lecture in the year of your 130th anniversary. “Educate, Agitate, Organise” is...
Continue ReadingCitizen central: What Labour can learn from cooperative councils
17 June 2014
February was the month when senior Labour figures began to set out a new vision for public services. Speeches by Ed Miliband and Jon Cruddas sketched their proposals for a radical redistribution of power from central government to individuals, communities...
Continue ReadingWhere now for Labour?
13 June 2014
The recent election results were a mixed blessing for the Labour party. Despite coming first in terms of national vote share in the local elections and seeing the further collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote, the successes clearly did not...
Continue ReadingElection 2014: The numbers
12 June 2014
Labour seats where Labour lost the popular vote in the 2014 local elections Party names in brackets in the 2010 columns indicate the main competitor party in 2010 where this is different from 2014. There were 9 Labour seats where the party...
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