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A Budget without imagination? Look again at energy
The risk with a Budget chock full of “everyday fixes” is the accusation it lacks imagination. Britain has huge intractable problems and the PM and his Chancellor are… giving us £100 for another major energy crisis? You see a version of this charge under every Instagram video by…
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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.
Last month, for the first time in years, upReach held a fringe meeting at a Party Conference. We were pleased to do so in partnership with Progress. We did this because there is real urgency to removing a major barrier to career success for young people from working class and…
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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
How can Labour make Britain the party of work, growth and opportunity? In a new paper for Progress, Lord Walker of Broxton OBE sets out a bold agenda for making work pay, boosting business investment and tackling Britain’s productivity challenge. With the Budget approaching,…
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Why We Can’t Afford Instiutionalised Thinking
My first Labour party conference was back in the early 1990s when as a campaigner for penal reform I was part of a group of free-thinking radicals and lawyers (including a young barrister called Keir Starmer). Our efforts to convince the party that community sentencing was a…
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We squandered the North Sea oil windfall. We can’t make the same mistake with AI
The backlash against artificial intelligence is gathering force. Across America this summer, plans for giant data centres are running into cross-country, cross-party opposition from a coalition that now stretches from Bernie Sanders to Republican governors. Communities worry…
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Can Burnham’s Ambitious Plans Succeed Without a Mandate?
Andy Burnham is the fifth occupant of Downing Street in ten years to be handed the keys by his party, rather than by the voters. The keys come with the red boxes, the flat above the shop, the podium with the crest on it. Three weeks in, the ambition is not in doubt, but the […]…
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“I am rooted in Labour and I am ready to lead.” – Michael Marra’s Scottish Labour Leadership Bid
Earlier this week, I took part in Scottish Labour’s first hustings of this leadership election. The room brought together members, CLP officers, trade unionists, parliamentarians, and affiliate members all of whom are the very lifeblood of our party. It is clear to me that the…
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“Ambitious for Scotland. Rooted in the everyday concerns of working people.” – Joe Fagan’s Scottish Labour Leadership Bid
Scottish Labour must prove it is ready to win and ready to govern There is no shortcut back to trust and we will not recover because voters decide it is our turn, or because the SNP have run out of road. Angry voters do not automatically become our support. Disappointment does…