When Aneurin Bevan died in 1960, a Conservative MP wrote in the Evening Standard that his passing reflected the Labour party’s failure to respond to a changing social reality: “In the coalfields from which he came, Marx and Engels have...
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On December 7 2015, Tristram Hunt MP delivered a speech on Labour's moral mission to the Fabian Society. The speech was followed by reactions from respondents Owen Jones and Gloria De Piero MP, and by questions from the audience. You can...
A Resolution Foundation report on the impact of the new National Living Wage (NLW), published today, makes for interesting reading. It shows that three in ten women in work are set to receive a pay rise, and that women will account for 61%...
George Osborne has his sights on child benefit. Yesterday, challenged repeatedly, he refused to rule out scrapping the benefit and merging it into means-tested universal credit.
He could hardly do otherwise, while also claiming he can find £12 billion in benefit...
Politics is fragmenting and it seems another inconclusive election is before us. The established Westminster parties have failed to find an answer to public disenchantment, as people say ‘you’re all the same’. But this year the choice between a Labour...
For anyone with a feel for recent British history, it was a heart-breaking scene: a brand new estate of social housing blocks, sat on the edge of city. The residents newly ‘decanted’ miles from their jobs and social networks, with...