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Seema Malhotra MP | 22 May 2013

Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is good for women and good for the economy. The gender gap in entrepreneurship has received less attention as a public policy matter than other areas of inequality. But the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s latest report on the issue shows there are fewer women ...

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Beating the blues

Steve Van Riel | 16 May, 2013

Ed Miliband has accomplished much over the past two years. The battle to win a majority in 2015 will open a new phase in his leadership, writes Steve Van Riel For the last two years, wherever Ed Miliband has chosen to focus his political energy he has had a great deal of success. Nick Clegg’s …

Doorstep challenge

Ash McGregor | 16 May, 2013

Shadow home affairs minister Gloria de Piero kicked off the Progress annual conference breakout debate, Doorstep challenge: Can we win on crime and immigration?, focusing on antisocial behaviour. She said that the government was turning the clock back. In the most recent crime survey for England and Wales, eight out of 10 respondents thought levels …

Clinician knows best?

John Woodcock MP | 16 May, 2013

Public Service Reform

When we come to look back at the history of the NHS over the current decade, with closure of local services causing anguish across the country, we may see this as the time when we were bound overly tightly to the idea that the clinician always knows best. Indeed, this government’s blind faith in the …

Tories descend into chaos

Angela Eagle MP | 16 May, 2013

The Business of Parliament

This week I began Business of the House Questions by raising equal marriage, which will be debated in the Commons on Monday and Tuesday. This debate and the subsequent passage of the third reading will ensure that the historic progress on LGBT equality accomplished by the previous government is consolidated. I continued by raising the …

Foreign policy dilemmas for progressives

Kirsty McNeill and Andrew Small | 15 May, 2013

Progressive Dilemmas

When the Labour party last took office in 1997, our foreign policy was heavily shaped in reaction to the moral and strategic failings of our Tory predecessors. In place of a cynical determination that ‘there is no such thing as the international community’, which left hundreds of thousands to be massacred in Bosnia and Rwanda, …

The economy: Have we earned the public’s trust?

Tanweer Ali | 15 May, 2013

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The Progress annual conference 2013 session on earning the public’s trust on the economy was lively and chock-a-block with ideas. The panelists, John Eatwell, Margaret Hodge, Nick Pearce, Ann Pettifor and Jonathan Portes, brought a wide range of perspectives to the discussion, but were united in the view that the coalition has lost the argument …