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The Progress interview Articles

Finding one’s voice

The winner of The Voice on politics and pop ‘I’m still the same Jermain Jackman that you’ll see in McDonalds on a Friday afternoon getting my Big Mac meal,’ begins the winner of The Voice, before pausing to concede, ‘but it’s changed the life around me.’ The...

‘I’m jarring with my colleagues’

There will be no big spending under Labour, Chris Leslie tells Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison Chris Leslie is an improbable hate figure. With his affable manner and gentle northern accent, he is not obviously one of politics’ bruisers. Yet in June the Observer’s...

Present at the creation

Twenty years after Tony Blair’s election as party leader, Peter Mandelson tells Robert Philpot and Richard Angell why winning the centre-ground is more important than ever Peter Mandelson’s autobiography bills him as the ‘third man’ of New Labour, an indispensable...

‘I have a political argument to win’

Lucy Powell has big ambitions for Labour’s childcare policy, find Robert Philpot and Adam Harrison There is a pram in the corner of Lucy Powell’s small Westminster office. Labour’s shadow childcare minister does not keep it there as a prop. For her, the personal truly...