News & Insight

7 March 2014

Regardless of the outcome of the next general election, money will be tight in terms of public spending priorities. Labour at local level is keen to see real change in all neighbourhoods. After May 2015 we cannot continue more of...

7 March 2014

For the next 14 months everyone within Labour will be focused on keeping the party’s polling lead intact and winning in 2015. But a different disaster could unfold: Labour might come to power, govern badly and leave no impression at...

6 March 2014

[View the story "Within Reach: The new politics of multiple needs and exclusions" on Storify]

6 March 2014

In 1839 Thomas Carlyle said “the condition of the great body of people in a country is the condition of the country itself”, and yet 175 years later we still fail too many people with multiple, complex needs who are...

6 March 2014

Introduction – the problem For a variety of understandable and often justifiable reasons, the past century has seen British democracy become ever more centralised. In 1905 local authority spending made up 57 per cent of total public expenditure, with local spend...

6 March 2014

Despite popular myth making by both its opponents and its allies, and the evidence of its record in government, the Labour party has not always been about a centralising, exclusively administrative approach to government. In many ways its origins are...