Dan Jarvis MP Articles

Thank you. It’s great to be here – although like everyone I hoped to be coming to this conference under very different circumstances. It has been a sobering week for us all. And I want to begin by paying tribute to my great friend Jim Murphy, following his decision to...

Today I am leading a debate in parliament – but it is a debate we should have had three weeks ago. On 28 November my Make Work Pay Bill was due to be debated in the House of Commons. It was a bill to give greater powers to the Low Pay Commission and strengthen the...

This summer will see the re-release of the iconic British film, Chariots of Fire. Its release comes as Britain hosts the 30th Olympiad, 88 years after Liddell and Abrahams, the heroes of the film, ran to achieve gold for Britain. Chariots of Fire is emblematic of the...

I am a regular visitor to the Barnsley Central Library. In the library is a plaque that reads: ‘The moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better.’ Classic Obama prose – but he’s...