Rory Palmer Articles

For those of us who care about living standards Monday of this week, 1 April, was no joke. April Fools’ Day it may have been but for people on the receiving end of the government’s savage clobbering of the welfare system that day will have very real consequences. As...

Labour councillors and activists know that it is an understatement to say local government has had a raw deal from the coalition. Councils have seen their budgets slashed, with poorer areas losing out disproportionately. There are new risks built into local authority...

If there is one issue that must never slip from the political radar it is child poverty. Tackling and ending child poverty has to remain central to Labour’s cause. This is something we must work as hard at and be as committed to now in opposition as we were in...

As the countdown towards next year’s London mayor election intensifies we are now more than 100 days into our Labour city mayor administration in Leicester. In May Peter Soulsby became Leicester’s first directly elected city mayor with Labour holding power in the...