Tag Archives: Labour

Because the Spectator apparently doesn’t believe in the right to reply

By Marko Attila Hoare | Published: May 24, 2013

Because the Spectator apparently doesn’t believe in the right to reply

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Taking control of the economic debate: Why Labour should commit to a mass house building programme and a living wage

By Guest | Published: May 24, 2013

Labour should challenge the Tories to match pledges on house building and the living wage. We will see then if they really are on the side of those who want to work hard and ‘get on’.

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Green Party accused of ‘acting as agents’ for the Tories

By James Bloodworth | Published: May 22, 2013

Brighton and Hove’s Green-led council has been accused of “acting as agents for the Tory-led coalition” after a letter emerged which appears to contradict the council’s pledge to not evict council tenants who are unable to pay the ‘bedroom tax’.

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Labour should cut its ties with the illiberal Henry Jackson Society

By James Bloodworth | Published: May 20, 2013

Born of a desire to tackle totalitarianism, the society is increasingly intolerant, yet some Labour MPs still support i

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Just how ‘sticky’ is this Labour vote?

By Richard Carr | Published: May 3, 2013

In terms of forming a Labour government, the only way is not Essex, but it’ll be an important staging post along that path. The signs, it seems, are promising even if work remains to be done.

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Fraser Nelson gets it badly wrong in today’s Telegraph

By Guest | Published: April 26, 2013

It must have seemed like quite a discovery, when Fraser Nelson found a Department for Education report which proved “that the whole premise of Labour’s education policy – that cash matters most – was false”.

Ignore for a moment the caricature of Labour’s 13 years in government; have Deloitte (who analysed the data on which Fraser Nelson’s argument is based) really discovered that levels of funding don’t matter in improving educational outcomes?

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Lessons for Labour from France: manage expectations

By James Bloodworth | Published: April 3, 2013

Francois Hollande’s popularity recently hit a record low for a French head of state, with a whopping 67 per cent of the French population disapproving of the President. The lesson from France should perhaps be that the most sensible thing to do in the current climate is to keep expectations low, or at any rate ensure they never approach anything like that generated in the run up to the election of Francois Hollande.

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Scottish politicians unite against press regulation

By Ed Jacobs | Published: March 18, 2013

As Westminster debates how best to secure an effective new system of press regulation, Alex Salmond has sought to distance himself from a report his own government commissioned into how to implement the recommendations of Lord Justice Leveson north of the border.

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Leveson: Labour should resist Cameron’s suffocating embrace

By Guest | Published: March 15, 2013

The least worst option for Labour could be to stand up for the victims and resist David Cameron’s suffocating embrace – even if that means going back to the drawing board and starting over together with the Lib Dems.

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New skills eco-system puts clear water between Labour and the tories

By Tony Burke | Published: March 10, 2013

A new ‘skills eco system’ now puts clear water between Labour and the Tories policy of ‘pile ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap’ low grade apprenticeships.

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