Nick Thomas-Symonds MP Articles

Nick Clegg has not had a good press for his performance in last week’s BBC TV debate on Europe against Nigel Farage. Clegg is now widely considered to have lost the debate. Indeed, there were certainly some major defects in his performance. For example, Clegg allowed...

Following International Women's Day, there is no better time to remember Labour’s Margaret Bondfield, the first female cabinet minister and privy councillor. Labour won 288 seats in the general election of 30 May 1929, making it the largest party, but short of an...

On 1 March 2014, the Labour party will hold a special conference on proposed internal reforms. This is an ideal time to reflect on previous organisational changes, and the one that perhaps made the greatest difference to British history was that undertaken by Arthur...

This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the close of the Edwardian era, when the Great War broke out in 1914; the poet Philip Larkin wistfully remarked in his famous poem, ‘MCMXIV’: ‘Never such innocence/Never before or since’. Perhaps the politics of the period...