The increase in Labour’s membership is profound. Reports suggest an additional 170,000 members have joined, including the 60,000 since Jeremy Corbyn became Leader of the Opposition. These numbers are unprecedented and should be a cause for deep celebration. But who are the...
Today's announcement from Iain Duncan Smith that the Department for Work and Pensions are trialing placing job advisers in food banks is a welcome one. Not least because it shows an acceptance on his part that there is a link...
The furore over tax credits has called the prime minister’s pledge of an “all-out assault on poverty” into question. In the House of Commons today, the Prime Minister shed no new light on the extent to which the planned tax...
The government must do more to ensure households on low incomes have access to enough good quality food.
By Cameron Tait
October 2015
In June the Fabian Society published analysis of the implications of EVEL for the Labour Party, in our report The Mountain To Climb. In the paper I wrote:
Labour is now so weak in Scotland, that ‘English Votes for English Laws’...
Whatever your stance within the Labour Party, it's hard not to be enthused by the sheer number of people joining and getting involved in Labour right now. In conversations with people in my own constituency, I've found that these new...
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