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The Progress interview Articles

‘We need to show it doesn’t matter what your background is’

The plaudits have been rolling in for Naushabah Khan, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Rochester and Strood, launched into the national limelight this autumn as the seat’s Conservative member of parliament switched allegiance to the United Kingdom Independence...

If not Labour, then who?

‘There’s a disjunction,’ Alan Milburn tells Adam Harrison and Richard Angell, ‘between the end we’re wishing for – the eradication of child poverty – and the means that we’re prepared to deploy’ It is in the rarefied environment of the library at 61 Whitehall, a...

‘It might be worth listening to me’

Tony Blair’s legacy is hotly contested. He defends it to Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison The expected publication next year of the much-delayed Chilcot inquiry will reopen, if it ever closed, the debate about Britain’s most controversial foreign policy action since...

‘The pre-1997 buzz is back’

One way or another, a historical truism will be broken next May, Tristram Hunt tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison For a brief moment, there is an air of professorial detachment as Tristram Hunt contemplates next May’s general election. We are discussing the fact...

‘Je ne regrette rien’

‘Je ne regrette rien’

Jun 17, 2015 | The Progress interview

We should not stop apologising to the voters who really wanted us to win, Mary Creagh tells Richard Angell and Adam...

‘It’s restored my faith in politics’

‘It’s restored my faith in politics’

Mar 16, 2015 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

Gordon Aikman wants nothing to be left unsaid Gordon Aikman has been busy of late. The former Labour party...

‘The country will be run according to a different idea’

‘The country will be run according to a different idea’

Mar 6, 2015 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

There will be no pie-in-the-sky promises under the next Labour government, Ed Miliband tells Richard Angell and Adam...

‘I’ve come home’

‘I’ve come home’

Oct 24, 2008 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

Three months before Gordon Brown became prime minister, journalists asked Peter Mandelson whether he expected the new...

Unite and rule

Sep 17, 2008 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

Labour's Annual Conference this month could hardly be taking place against a less auspicious backdrop: a faltering...

Fighting talk

Sep 1, 2008 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

Just days into her new job as housing minister Caroline Flint underlined her reputation for tough talking when she...

In the ring

Jun 20, 2008 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

Andy Burnham is just squaring up. The culture secretary is somewhat underwhelmed by David Davis' decision to resign...

Class act

May 23, 2008 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

Boris Johnson can rest assured. The minister for London, Tessa Jowell, is not about to unleash the kind of class war...

Minister for funds

Apr 8, 2008 | Project challenge: Welfare reform, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

Since the moment last autumn that David Cameron delighted the Tory right by declaring himself a fan of ‘tough love’...

Unlucky for some

Nov 1, 2007 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

If Gordon Brown’s current crop of young cabinet ministers are part of Labour’s ‘lucky generation’ – their political...

Family affairs

Oct 1, 2007 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

There are few political potatoes as hot as those which Gordon Brown tossed to Ed Balls when he appointed him to head...

Premier days

Sep 1, 2007 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview

Gordon Brown has Franklin D. Roosevelt to thank – or to blame. As an aficionado of American politics, the prime...

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