The new Labour government has a wealth of compelling life experience to draw on and powerful personal stories about why its leaders understand the challenges Britain faces. As the dust settles from the election, we can reflect on how the campaign used many of those stories to underline its policy
The substantial majority achieved by Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in the general election represents an unprecedented opportunity for economic and industrial transformation. As the King’s Speech showed yesterday, Labour’s net zero agenda will be at the centre of story. The green transition is seen by Labour not only as part
This King’s Speech has rightly been described as a plan for growth, but if you scratch beneath the surface it is also a bold plan to tackle the deep health inequalities that blight our country. Health inequalities are the most pernicious form of injustice, meaning people live shorter and less
If last week was about first-day-at-school selfies, and for some, red boxes, then this week is about the hard yards of change. The thrill of a new government is fleeting, and soon people want to see what difference their votes will make. Making a difference is hard. The Tories may
Labour’s plans to end the use of hotel accommodation for some of the 104,517 individuals currently in receipt of asylum support, and the addition of 1,000 extra caseworkers to reduce the backlog, have been welcomed by many charities and groups supporting asylum seekers. From my experience working for a charity
Now that the dust has settled a little and the adrenaline has worn off, it’s worth thinking a bit deeper about the election results from Thursday. Labour has a majority, a large majority – one that gives it the mandate to make the change that is desperately needed. That this
Wow! What a difference a day makes. My brain is buzzing with what these election results means for our country, for the future of UK politics, and for how our new Labour Government will need to govern. Everything feels different. Politics has never felt more fragile. The voter coalition that
“We are living in a more dangerous, volatile world. Our adversaries openly challenge the values we cherish. Freedom, sovereignty, the rule of law – and of course the open international order upon which so much depends”, wrote Lord David Cameron recently in an open letter to The Telegraph (9 June
Six weeks ago, when I spoke at the Progressive Britain conference on ‘is Labour serious about class’? and blogged that, yes, I thought they were, none of us had any idea that a General Election would come so soon. We’re now just two weeks from a potentially historic polling day,
The proposal for a new model of national service fundamentally misunderstands the nature of modern warfare and the most pressing needs of our national defence. It conflates two distinct concepts: the requirements of our military and the benefits of community service, meeting the urgent needs of neither, it fails to
