Jacqui Smith Articles

This week’s thought is ‘inspired’ by Nigel Farage and Liam Fox. Inspired in the way that a nasty smell might force you to clean out your drains, but nevertheless you’ll see what I mean. This weekend, Fox argued in a Sunday Telegraph interview that the Tories should...

The other night on BBC Question Time, David Starkey suggested I was a ‘token woman’ as home secretary as a way of suggesting that more women weren’t necessary in politics. As in so many other things, he was wrong about that – I’m proud of the whole of my 10-year...

I had begun to worry that the panda which represented the public service elements of our policy review wasn’t just not pregnant, but had taken a vow of chastity. However, this week we can welcome a flurry of activity and ideas on the role of the state and public...

Andy Burnham delivered a ‘state of the NHS’ analysis during a One Nation event in Birmingham yesterday. It certainly made very depressing, although not unexpected, listening. I wondered what we should learn from this government’s abject failure even to deliver on its...