Alan Lockey Articles

Recognising that Brexit is just a complicating factor for Emmanual Macron is his grand ambitions for European reform is key to understanding this week's visit, argues Alan Lockey The Daily Mail is furious. It seems the devious – and worse, French! – president Emmanuel...

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 welfare reform...

Britain will have to recapture its decentralising spirit to secure a post-Brexit settlement that works for everyone, argues Alan Lockey  Early in his political career, Nye Bevan had a stump speech about power in Britain. 'When I get older', the young Bevan would say,...

The elevation of manifestos is ridiculous – but they reveal more about a party's priorities, judgement and competence than almost anything else, writes Alan Lockey Imagine yourself a manager of a high profile football club. A well resourced club; one of the richest in...