Siobhain McDonagh MP Articles

This Monday’s Conservative party conference celebrates the brand-new ‘party of working people’ according to its conference plan. Indeed, in his speech, George Osborne will claim that the Conservatives have successfully shed their image of the party of wealth and...

    Five things you need to know about the 2015 election – and five about 2020[column-group][column] Five things you should know about how bad the 2015 result was: In the run-up to polling day Labour was targeting 88 seats held by the Tories. We lost eight...

There is one issue which surpasses all others in my constituency of Mitcham and Morden. At my weekly advice surgery, over half of the people I see are struggling with housing. People who do not have a roof over their head, people who are living in a standard of rented...

Being on the electoral register is a civic duty. In some ways, it’s the nearest thing Britain has to a social contract. Nobody can make you vote, but if you’re on the register you belong to a democracy. It’s the basis of our justice system. If you’re not on it, you...