News & Insight

28 September 2012

Ed Miliband should resist calls to announce policy at this year’s Labour party conference. There is always a lot of pressure on the leader’s speech at any party conference. Competing priorities are forcefully prescribed, some calling for more detailed policy commitments,...

27 September 2012

There is a cynical old saying in American politics: “the best time to kick a man is when he is down.” But my party should resist the temptation merely to kick David Cameron as its only project. Labour’s much larger...

27 September 2012

It is a concern that only one in 10 members of the public understands that even though the government is reducing the deficit, the national debt is still increasing.  That’s a scary figure At the moment our government is outspending our...

27 September 2012

Our economy is in a serious condition. We are in the second recession since 2008. Output remains well below levels experienced before the financial crisis. Living standards continue to fall. Spending by households has yet to recover and remains depressed....

27 September 2012

In the 1990s Tory Ministers in the Major government claimed that selling-off the UK’s railways would bring "benefits to passengers and taxpayers".  Such a claim now appears laughable after years of rail fragmentation and chaos: rising fares, little sign of...

26 September 2012

The political consensus around education is wrong - anyone outside Westminster knows this. Parents, employers, colleges and universities know it. Certainly the young people and teachers in our schools know it. We need a progressive alternative. Built around a 19th century...