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Paul Brant Articles

No more social care sticking plasters

Britain's ailing adult social care system needs more than a one-off grant or regressive tax increases to be fit for purpose, writes Progress strategy board member Paul Brant After a winter when even the Red Cross were driven to describe our  hospitals as in a...

Labour councils leading on social care

Labour in local government is innovating to compensate for lack of government funding, writes Paul Brant This winter the health and social care system is under unprecedented pressure, and parts of it are buckling. This was entirely predictable with an aging...

‘Brexit means parliament’

'Brexit means parliament' at least according to the High Court's judgment. Cause for two cheers for us Remainers. Why not three cheers? This court judgment eases one headache but creates many more. It could also conceivably lead to a Labour wipeout. The judgment says...

Progressive reform which is long overdue

Anyone who spent time in Tory marginal seats knows that on one issue the polls were correct. Labour lacked economic credibility with huge swathes of people we needed to vote for us. Labour lost twice as many voters to the Tories than to the Greens according to...