Graeme Cooke Articles

The case for a standalone National Insurance Fund —In recent years the contributory principle has returned to mainstream debates about welfare policy. So far, concrete proposals have largely focused on particular areas where a ‘something-for-something’ approach could...

Labour should commit to slashing the number of young people not in work or education. Graeme Cooke suggests how More than one in seven 16-to-24-year-olds – over a million young people – are not in education, employment or training in the UK. Rather than developing...

If Labour wins the next election it will inherit a set of challenges on employment and welfare quite different from those it faced in the late 1990s. Increasing the employment rate will be crucial to increasing living standards, given the reduced scope for...

We need to arrest the shift from building homes to subsidising rents By Graeme Cooke —Promoting homeownership and defending social housing have dominated the politics of housing within the Labour party since the 1990s. Often seen as separating ‘Old Labour’ and New...