Frank Field MP Articles

Employment law must be changed to protect the army of working people toiling away in today's 'gig economy', writes work and pensions select committee chair Frank Field MP A little over a century ago, Beatrice and Sidney Webb set out the bones of a labour code which...

The government quite naturally is intent on launching a counter-offensive in the political debate on tax avoidance, money-laundering and other forms of corruption among the very, very rich. It would have defied political logic had it not chosen to move onto the front...

If you had said four years ago that the Tories would be setting the agenda on welfare reform at this stage of the parliament, and that Labour would be trailing so badly on one of its core issues, you could have expected to be put in a straitjacket. But with the...

The new proposal in Rachel Reeves’ speech is to be welcomed – young people lacking literacy, numeracy and IT skills would be required to undertake training in order to qualify for jobseeker’s allowance. So far so good. But we need a much more joined-up approach here....