by Joan Ryan MP | Mar 14, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
The Labour leadership says the party is on a general election footing. Joan Ryan examines the claim Just a few days ago, an important deadline passed. By 20 February 2017 potential Conservative candidates had to put their names forward for the initial process of...
by Chris Terry | Mar 14, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Ed Miliband suffered unlikely losses to the Tories in 2015, but could there be more to come under Jeremy Corbyn, asks Chris Terry The Conservative party has begun the process of selecting candidates for the next general election. Forty-four seats closed for...
by Calum Sherwood | Mar 14, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Philip Hammond’s assault on the self-employed provides Labour with a golden opportunity to win over Tory voters – that Jeremy Corbyn is squandering, writes Calum Sherwood When Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party for the first time, he promised a...
by Linda Thomas | Mar 14, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The public, politicians and the media must demand a sustainable solution to Britain’s adult social care crisis, argues deputy leader of Bolton council Linda Thomas By the chancellor’s own admission it was so far so good as he gave himself a smug pat on the...
by Conor Pope | Mar 13, 2017 | Monday Politics
Britain’s mostly benign, institutionalised anti-Catholicism is starting to re-emerge, warns Progress deputy editor Conor Pope In June last year, a new police ombudsman report was published into the 1994 Loughinsland massacre, where masked members of the Ulster...
by Cherie Blair | Mar 13, 2017 | BrexitWatch, Section: Progress Magazine
The human rights of British citizens post-Brexit are on a shaky footing, write Cherie Blair and Claire Kerschensteiner The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. Upon departure, the government will no longer have to comply with the Charter of Fundamental...
by Paul Richards | Mar 13, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Paul Richards investigates who will be Jeremy Corbyn’s successor as the hard-left’s anointed leadership candidate One thing you can guarantee, like rain on a bank holiday, is splits on the hard-left. The old Monty Python joke is funny because it is true. For the all...
by Paul Brant | Mar 13, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Britain’s ailing adult social care system needs more than a one-off grant or regressive tax increases to be fit for purpose, writes Progress strategy board member Paul Brant After a winter when even the Red Cross were driven to describe our hospitals as in a...
by Ibrahim Dogus | Mar 10, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
The increase to national insurance contributions in this year’s budget is yet another Tory assault on small businesses and entrepreneurs, writes Ibrahim Dogus This week’s budget has proven to be the disaster for innovative, small businesses that many had...
by Jacqui Smith | Mar 10, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
It has been a long journey for women to reach the top of the police service, writes Jacqui Smith The appointment of Cressida Dick as the first female commissioner of the Metropolitan police is excellent news for policing and another crack in the glass ceiling....
