News & Insight

15 October 2013

This week, National Front candidate Laurent Lopez won a hotly-contested local council by-election in the southern town of Brignoles, France. Analysts have said that the Front National win in Brignoles, whose mayor belongs to the Communist party, could be a...

15 October 2013

With the Care Bill currently being debated in Parliament, all the problems of our ageing society are highlighted once again. Local authorities are running out of money to meet social care costs. The NHS is struggling to cope with the...

15 October 2013

I was pleased to be invited to the well-attended Fabian roundtable held at the Labour Party conference on land, community and a popular environmentalism. There’s clearly much more to be said on such an important and wide-ranging topic than could...

14 October 2013

Last week, Nissan's chief operating officer, Toshiyuki Shiga, warned Britain against leaving the European Union. He claimed that our ongoing membership is 'very important' for foreign investors and highlighted the dramatic consequence of having to set up our own standards...

14 October 2013

Many people in the real world would probably agree that the party conference season is a bit of a weird time of year, but this is especially true if you are a pollster. When you look at voting intention polls...

14 October 2013

In Maria Eagle’s hands, transport has become a battleground policy area in the run-up to 2015. As her successor Mary Creagh takes over as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, London-based civil servants and MPs opening postbags in the...