|
|
|
 
Progress launches final three policy group 'green papers'Today, Progress launches the final three 'green papers' on its Progressive Challenge policy themes, produced by three of its five policy groups working on proposals for the next Labour manifesto. They are: A positive benefit: changing the terms of the migration debate
Social justice, democracy and human rights: shaping a principles-based foreign policy Autonomy and control: making welfare work for social justice 
David Miliband's speech
A fortnight ago, travelling back from a meeting with fellow European ministers, I have to admit I felt uneasy. The Irish referendum had shaken the confidence of European leaders. As usual,...
From public sector to public service: putting citizens in control
This week, we publish a green paper entitled From Public Sector To Public Service: Putting Citizens In Control, by the Progress Public Services Reform Group, we want to hear the ideas of Progress members...
James Purnell's speech
The fact that will do for the Tories is that they don't know what they think. The twists and turns of trying to take the toxic from a political brand has left them dizzy. They don't know where they...
Liam Byrne speech
I am very grateful to Progress for the chance to open this new series of lectures about some of the challenges we need to answer to win a historic fourth term of office. I remember editing the...
Criminal record?
Labour's approach to overhauling the criminal justice system has been one of the most ambitious adopted by any government in the postwar period. There has been significant extra investment - in 2007-08...
The only choice
Despite the continuing difficulties over party funding, the new year has begun with a determined attempt by the government to right itself following the storms which blew it off course during the last... in Other 08/04/2008
Reclaiming territory
David Miliband’s speech in Oxford last month laid out the clear
challenge that faces progressive internationalists in the post-Iraq
invasion world. But to understand where the internationalist...
Employing new ideas
Welfare reform proposals are like buses,’ an official recently told me.
‘You wait for ages and then lots of them come at once.’ After years of
relative quiet, a succession of government...
Lessons from America
Despite unprecedented success in reducing unemployment, the British
government now faces a clear but complex problem: how to help the
significant minority of people seemingly stuck on incapacity,...
|
|
Progress annual conference 2008