News & Insight

24 December 2013

As George Osborne would have us believe, Britain is a nation on the road to recovery. His case is bolstered by a clutch of positive economic data and the assertion that unemployment has fallen to the lowest level since 2009....

23 December 2013

Recent polls suggest that over two-thirds of the public want to see large sections of the economy that are currently privately run brought into public hands – 70 per cent of the public want to see the railways renationalised, 71...

23 December 2013

1.  The Westminster Village still misreads polls Try as the Mike Smithsons of the blogosphere might, the Westminster village continues to obsess over the lack of consistent double digit poll leads by Labour. And yet the fact is that Labour’s lead...

22 December 2013

Once every generation or so, the question of constitutional reform emerges from its anorak-clad obscurity to take centre stage in British political life. 2014 is that moment for this generation, as next September’s referendum on Scottish independence prompts people throughout...

21 December 2013

2014 is a proud anniversary for Labour and childcare marking the 10 year anniversary of our groundbreaking 10 year childcare strategy in 2004. Labour is the party of childcare and early years. Our record stands for itself – investment in the...

20 December 2013

Historically, rural households have been the forgotten faces of fuel poverty. Hidden beneath the idyll of chocolate-box cottages and rolling countryside, households in rural areas are more likely to suffer from fuel poverty than their urban counterparts and schemes designed...