Stephen Twigg MP Articles

The risk of genocide across the world remains —This month marks the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Almost one million people were killed in the space of just 100 days. Kwibuka is the word for ‘remember’ in Kinyarwanda, the language of Rwanda. It describes...

Collins helps make Labour fit for the 21st century I attended my first Labour party annual conference 30 years ago. I was the 17-year-old delegate from Enfield Southgate CLP, conference was in Blackpool, and Neil Kinnock had been party leader for just a year. At that...

Today, the Conservative shadow minister for education in Wales, Angela Burns AM, called on David Cameron to bring back grammar schools. Grammars, and the selection of children and damaging division they bring, are once again the Conservative answer to improving...

With only two years to go until the general election, the scale of the challenge to achieving a majority Labour government is not one that is lost on me or my colleagues in the shadow cabinet. I know from visiting our battleground seats – Labour's 106 offensive target...