News & Insight

23 September 2014

The next government will be the most digital ever. But it will only be progressive if it’s a Labour government. Labour’s history, our roots, are in the empowerment of people. All too often government is something done to the people. Digital government must...

22 September 2014

In recent times we have seen sickening revelations about physical abuse in care homes, neglect of hospital patients and sexual exploitation in children’s homes and elsewhere. For me, the most worrying aspects of these tragic events is how often the abuse...

22 September 2014

Labour’s leadership must chart a route to the common good that builds on its working- and middle-class support. The vast majority of voters who deserted Labour after 1997 appear not to vote at all. But a significant proportion of ex-Labour supporters...

22 September 2014

Rebuilding the nation in tough times but understanding the importance of the environment. That’s the mission and it’s one we’ve accomplished before. It was a Labour government in 1945 that built the NHS and created our national parks. Those were tough...

22 September 2014

In 1900, aviation was still the province of imaginative writers such as HG Wells. In 1945, the main experience of aviation was as an aspect of war, with British cities bombed from the air, Spitfires and Hurricanes in dogfights with...

22 September 2014

Few people would dispute that Britain is in the middle of a housing crisis. The exact numbers might be open to argument but the ever growing gap between supply and demand means that millions of hard working people are increasingly priced...