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If Andy Burnham is serious about breaking down barriers for young people, his Government must keep Labour’s Manifesto promise to ban unpaid internships.

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Our Moral and Economic Duty to Make the Labour Party the Party of Work: A Report by Lord Walker of Broxton

21/10/2026 | By Progress
  • February 16, 2024

The Wild Men of the first Labour Government

Laura and Steven, hosts of the Progressive Britain History Project, speak to David Torrance about his new book on the remarkable story of the first Labour Government of 1924.

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  • David Torrance
    David Torrance
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  • Laura Beers
    Laura Beers

    Historian of politics, gender, media & public opinion. Author of Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson.

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  • Steven Fielding
    Steven Fielding

    Professor of Political History at the University of Nottingham

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