Daniel Crawford Articles

The evolution of universal credit from a radical change in the social contract to a means to reach Tory savings targets has been extraordinary. We were told that this ‘once in a generation scheme’ would make work pay and transform the lives of millions. However, it...

It is perhaps no surprise given the number of alternative political stories on offer as parliament returned from the conference recess this week that another failure in the government’s universal credit rollout passed almost unnoticed. The scheme has been beset by...

Labour’s announcement on Friday of more rights for football fans and the opportunity for supporters’ representatives to sit on the board of their clubs is a welcome attempt to reconnect the modern game to the supporters who are all too often taken for granted....

When Downing Street briefed its intention to include a plan to give football fans more powers in the running of their clubs in Labour’s 2010 general election manifesto, the critics carped that this was another pie-in-the-sky proposal from a government that was gasping...