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School freedom was never a Tory idea

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Alex White | 18 June 2013

Like all good education policy announcements, Stephen Twigg’s chose the trusted ‘three priorities’ method when delivering his keynote speech yesterday. Freedom, devolution and collaboration will provide the backbone to Labour’s education offer in 2015. But more importantly, they allow Labour to finally feel comfortable with our achievements in government. The first of ...

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A Brexit for workplace rights?

Joe Dromey | 12 June, 2013

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Instead of focusing on the issues that matter, the Conservative party is again descending into one of its periodic bouts of Europhobic obsession, as evidenced yet again today with their site Let Britain Decide. Immigration is perhaps the main cause of their unease with the European Union. But alongside this the desire to wrest back …

Why 1983 is still important today

Stephen Bush | 11 June, 2013

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Success has many fathers, particularly if you are a member of Labour’s hard-left and you are discussing elections. The triumphs of 1997, 2001, or 2005 have any number of antecedents: Black Wednesday, John Major, John Redwood, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Michael Howard, William Hague, anyone really, as long as it isn’t Tony Blair. But curiously, …

A second Harold Wilson?

Nick Thomas-Symonds | 11 June, 2013

Labour history

Last week, Wednesday 5 June 2013, marked exactly 38 years to the date since the UK-wide referendum on membership of what was then the European Economic Community, known as the Common Market. David Cameron’s European policy of renegotiate and decide is not new. The then Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson, went back to Brussels to …

Progressive Capitalism

Kitty Ussher | 11 June, 2013

I have a lot of respect for David Sainsbury, gained from our time working together a decade ago at the Department for Trade and Industry, and I have also benefitted from a number of campaigns and organisations he has funded. So it was with some trepidation that I opened up his book Progressive Capitalism: How …

Letter from … Ottawa

Andrew Cardozo | 10 June, 2013

Canadian politics could be in for a change, as we now have three parties with strong leaders. Once again. Or so it seems. The venerable Liberal party, which got quite a drubbing in May 2011’s general election, has elected a dynamic and charismatic leader, 41-year-old Justin Trudeau, the son of the popular, albeit controversial, Pierre …

Mutual nudge is a worrying fudge

Karin Christiansen | 10 June, 2013

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The government’s support for mutuals appears skin-deep Karin Christiansen —In the nine months I have been general secretary of the Cooperative party, I have been listening to coalition pronouncements on mutuals with great interest and growing confusion. At first there seemed to be a will to explore new approaches to business and to public service …