Month: January 2013 Articles

I am delighted to have the opportunity this morning to set out my thinking on the future of vocational education in this country. I want to thank David and Policy Exchange for providing me with this platform and for the important contribution that you are making to...

The time has come to stop apologising for our approach to immigration in government and to get serious in thinking about what the next Labour government will do in this most difficult policy area. Is it possible to devise a One Nation immigration policy? I’m more than...

Israel goes to the polls today for its general election. At Labour Friends of Israel, we make the progressive case for Israel, drawing attention to the country’s vibrant democracy, civil society and economic sphere in all its varied guises. However, if there is one...

Quite a lot of foreign policy happened this week; but for the sound of silence from the British left you might have been forgiven for thinking that the world outside the British Isles had ceased to exist. The natural posture of opposition parties is parochial: but the...