Sally Keeble Articles

Round two of the 2016 budget has Osborne promising to jettison his changes to disability benefits and having his record torn apart by Angela Eagle. But to dismiss his budget as a huge failure would be to underestimate what has happened. In fact the budget book shows...

This was a budget of bounding hubris by a chancellor who feels he has the next general election in the bag, the next leadership election within reach and a new fluffy kitten strategy to deploy. That is the one where you put something sweet and cuddly on the table to...

After hard-up, hard-working families, pensioners are the group that are being hit by George Osborne’s tax changes. It is not obvious: the rhetoric, as for working families, is that the Tories support pensioners who have ‘done the right thing’ all their lives. That...

Luciana Berger’s appointment as minister for mental health with shadow cabinet rank and her commitment at the Progress meeting on dementia is the best hope yet of getting much-needed action to tackle this health timebomb. Jeremy Hughes, Alzheimer Society chief...