Yesterday’s Spending Review was important in all kinds of ways. It was important because it sets the direction for the next couple of years of spending, aiming to provide the stability that businesses and the country have been lacking. It was important because it marks the start of the major
The Gleneagles Summit 2005, Eriko Sugita / Reuters 20 years ago, the words of Nelson Mandela rang out in Trafalgar Square. He called on the world to Make Poverty History stating that ‘as long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest’.
Many citizens are angry as I often hear and see in my surgeries and messages to me as an MP. The global financial crisis sparked a chain of events that undermined their confidence in how things work. They suffered in the recession and then saw that ‘the system’ didn’t prosecute
On Friday, the financial services regulator (the Financial Conduct Authority) published its latest Financial Lives Survey, a nationally representative survey of nearly 18,000 people that serves as a state of the nation report on the UK’s personal finances. It provides insights into our attitudes to managing money, accessing important financial
“The future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.” William Gibson The last decade has seen society transform at breakneck speed. Often, this has been credited to the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR), a term describing the rise of digital technologies, big data, and automation. Yet behind the headlines
On Monday, May 19th, the Government introduced the Restoring Control over the Immigration System white paper, the latest piece of legislation designed to meet Labour’s 2024 manifesto commitment to reduce net migration. This is an area in need of policy intervention and the political timing following the local elections is
The Netanyahu government has been a disaster – for Israel and its security, for the Palestinians, and for the prospects of a wider regional peace. It is time for it to go and for Israel to have the new leadership its people want and deserve. The 7 October atrocities –
On a blaring hot Saturday, Labour modernisers from across the country gathered in a glitzy London conference hall to attend the first Progressive Britain Annual Conference held during a Labour government in over a decade. As Darren Jones noted, the atmosphere was decidedly distinct to the Annual conferences of past
The small town of Ranya in Iraqi Kurdistan once loomed large in British foreign policy and now matters a great deal to Labour’s migration policy. The Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein’s genocidal dictatorship began there in 1991 and was nearly crushed before John Major pioneered a safe haven over the
One year ago, the UK and our allies defended Israel from an unprecedented direct attack on the Jewish state by Iran and its terrorist proxies – with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) playing a lead role in choregraphing this onslaught of missiles. But, as well as being an ongoing
