Karin Smyth MP Articles

Monthly unemployment statistics indicate that many hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises in my Bristol South constituency are doing a terrific job helping people into work. Bristol South tends to rank somewhere around the middle of the United Kingdom...

The Tories could be in power for a generation —We all expect the Tories to pull every trick in the book to retain the power they unexpectedly won by a short head in May. They will, of course, complement timely Treasury bribes with redrawn constituency boundaries. But...

It may turn out to be a day to tell our grandchildren about. But let’s get beyond the little red book, and whether the chancellor is clever, and focus on the real Tory plan. The plan to steal Labour clothes; to pick up on some of our best ideas – ones that address the...

Business on the public accounts committee is hardly glamorous, but I am learning just how gemstone-precious are the insights it offers. Recent discussions surrounding elements of the government’s devolution efforts to date have been enlightening in many ways: and not...