News & Insight

22 September 2013

As a nation, we are paying the price for not better supporting women at work. The UK Women’s Business Council report ‘Maximising women’s contribution to future economic growth’ published earlier this summer found that there are over 2.4 million women...

22 September 2013

Once upon a time, Britain was prepared to give the Tories the benefit of the doubt. They said they cared about poverty; they promised a welfare revolution and they pledged, 'we're all in this together'. Now, three long years on,...

22 September 2013

Less than a year from now Scottish voters will have decided whether we want to remain part of the UK or whether we will have voted for independence. While opinion polls suggest that people remain unconvinced by the arguments of the...

21 September 2013

There will be voters who go to the polls on 7th May 2015 who weren’t alive when Tony and Cherie Blair posed outside 10 Downing Street on 2nd May 1997. They will have no memory of an event which is...

21 September 2013

The living wage campaign is a powerful illustration of the type of change a one nation Labour government can achieve. A campaign that began in the east end of London, it is now a national movement, with communities coming together...

20 September 2013

Despite recent difficulties the European Union is a great success.  Many others in the Balkans, in Turkey and Eastern Europe still aspire to join us.  Why should that be if it was the unmitigated failure portrayed by Europhobic politicians? In the...