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Adam Harrison Articles

‘That’s nasty, ugly politics’

Alan Johnson is taking no prisoners in Labour’s campaign to remain in the European Union, find Adam Harrison and Jerome Neil As we enter his office overlooking Parliament Square, Alan Johnson is seated behind his desk, scribbling away. ‘I’m just writing to a cleaner,...

If it’s broke, fix it

Adam Harrison with the latest from the wonk world Plenty about the way public services
 are currently run could be fixed, even if everything is not totally broken. Scottish Labour under leader Kezia Dugdale turned heads once more last month by pledging 
to abolish...

Labour’s unreconciled dilemma

As IPPR releases a raft of new reports on schools, housing and criminal justice reform, it is tempting to pursue business as usual and inspect its policy proposals. Times are, however, different. The ever-perceptive Stephen Daisley last month commented that Progress,...

Tory tanks on Labour lawns  

Last night Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson made the trip to London to deliver a lecture on poverty and life chances. The fact this happened at all should give the Labour party across Great Britain pause to think. It was not so much what she said in her...
If it’s broke, fix it

If it’s broke, fix it

Adam Harrison with the latest from the wonk world Plenty about the way public services
 are currently run could be...

Premier events

Premier events

Each year the centre-left thinktank Policy Network holds its Progressive Governance conference, which habitually...

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All change

All change

In the four years since Gordon Brown met Gillian Duffy the Conservatives have introduced an ‘immigration cap’ and our...

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Power surge

Power surge

It could be the week that marked the beginning of the end for ‘Labour’s institutional statism’ as Ben Lucas of the RSA...

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