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Section: Progress Magazine Articles

Britain’s skills shortage

The government’s industrial strategy – made more urgent by Brexit – must prioritise technical skills, argues Thomas Aubrey The decision to effectively end the freedom of movement of labour will require the government to urgently address the issue of technical skills...

Communitarian traditions

Labour cannot claim to govern in the interests of working people while pledging to disregard their wishes, argues Jerome Neil Rarely in the Labour party’s history has it seemed as peripheral to the national discourse as it does now. A recent YouGov poll put the party...

No green Brexit

May is pursuing a strategy that will harm our environment as well as our economy, argues Mary Creagh MP Theresa May’s speech on Brexit was an opportunity for her to set out her plans to put Britain’s national interest first as we leave the European Union. Instead, in...

‘Held to account, not ransom’

Angela Smith tells the government to ‘grow up’ A Labour In campaign placard peeks out from behind the fireplace. On the mantelpiece sits a photograph with a young Barack Obama. The room is dotted with reminders of painful recent defeats for progressives. And yet it is...