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Benjamin Butterworth Articles

Brexit threatens our green and pleasant land

The environment has only recently featured in this European Union referendum debate. The chief executives of the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds – two of the biggest civil society organisations in the United Kingdom – came...

London’s young people need a Labour mayor

Turn up at London Labour’s new headquarters on a Monday night, and you will find a room filled with young members from right across the city, and the party spectrum. It is only a six or seven minute walk from parliament, but the atmosphere could not be any more...

Bedroom farce

Today's PMQs was not one to light up the fires of political passions. But it did focus on one important and divisive issue: social housing. The government's so-called 'bedroom tax' is set to charge those living in social housing around £60 per month for bedrooms...

Tackling homelessness

Prior to the season of Olympic euphoria, Young Labour activists from across the UK met at Newcastle university for their first annual conference. Top of the weekend schedule was the selection of a new priority campaign for young members, with options including youth...
Bedroom farce

Bedroom farce

Today's PMQs was not one to light up the fires of political passions. But it did focus on one important and divisive...