by Nick Thomas-Symonds MP | Oct 2, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Students with the potential to be incredible solicitors, barristers and judges are being blocked from entering the legal profession. That needs to change, writes Nick Thomas-Symonds MP Open access to the legal profession for anyone with the ability, skill and...
by Richard Angell | Sep 29, 2017 | The Last Word
First they tried to bore us out, then they tried to bully us out … now they try to shame us out. It will not work, writes Progress director Richard Angell Labour’s new establishment is learning from and emulating the old establishment fast. The hard-left...
by Alan Lockey | Sep 29, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The Labour leader’s deliberate vagueness on social security is a betrayal of those that elected him hoping he would rebuild Britain’s broken welfare state, argues Alan Lockey Perhaps it was inevitable anyway. Nevertheless, the significance of the 2015...
by Sophie Francis-Cansfield | Sep 29, 2017 | Progressive reviews, Section: Progress Magazine
Sophie Francis‑Cansfield finds the conclusion of John O’Farrell’s sequel a welcome relief John O’Farrell’s latest book Things Can Only Get Worse?, a follow up to his 1998 bestseller Things Can Only Get Better, provides an often painfully humorous review of elections...
by Melanie Smallman | Sep 28, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Britain has lost its place as a world leader on climate change, writes Melanie Smallman This summer saw horrific floods in Texas and Bangladesh and one of the most powerful storms in history roaring across the Atlantic coast of the United States. While Donald Trump...
by Chuka Umunna MP | Sep 27, 2017 | #Lab17
Britain must assume a proactive and strategic approach to social integration if it is to become a more inclusive nation, reflects Chuka Umunna MP In this year’s general election we saw age trump other demographic factors as the greatest predictor for how someone would...
by Caroline Flint MP | Sep 26, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
The creation of a new centre party is no alternative to Labour winning back the centre-ground, says Caroline Flint Like Blu-rays and Segways, a new centre party is an over-hyped idea, destined to promise much and deliver little. The liberal-minded press would love...
by Mary Creagh MP | Sep 26, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
A united Labour party, working with other willing MPs, is the only feasible option for stopping a hard Brexit, writes Mary Creagh Like David Cameron before her, when it comes to the European Union, Theresa May is putting her own career ahead of the national...
by Seema Malhotra MP | Sep 26, 2017 | #Lab17
Government must ensure that Britain secures a Brexit deal that does not endanger its position as a world leader in advertising, argues Seema Malhotra MP Britain’s advertising industry is a world leader and supports over one million jobs in the United Kingdom – last...
by Jordan Marshall | Sep 25, 2017 | #Lab17
The last time the Conservatives were in power for seven years, over three million people were left unemployed and sharp regional divides began to open up across the country. Because in 1986, just as the ‘big bang’ propelled the City to new and dizzying heights, rapid...
