Stephen Twigg MP Articles

Labour will clear up the ‘dog’s breakfast’ of the Lobbying Act The election is now only a month away. For many, the day is a key milestone in their calendar – the opportunity to elect the government, to choose their local representative and to pick a party and prime...

Today, the Electoral Commission has finally published a report on the state of the electoral register. Labour has warned for months now that around a million voters may have fallen off the register in 2014 leaving them unable to vote in the general election as the...

Today is national voter registration day. It is an opportunity for all of us to make sure friends, neighbours and colleagues are all signed up to vote and have their voice heard. The electoral register is at the heart of our democracy. It is the mechanism by which we...

Sowing the seeds of equality I was 17 when the miners’ strike began in 1984. I was a Labour activist in the Tory stronghold of Enfield Southgate; doing my A levels at Southgate comprehensive school; and I was gay but had not yet told anyone. Southgate Labour activists...