Section: Progress Magazine Articles

Hard-won gains to improve rape conviction rates are under threat Following Ched Evans’ acquittal on rape charges, Labour’s shadow law officers should have been speaking out fast and furious. As Vera Baird argued cogently in the Guardian last month, the case put...

The prime minister closed her party’s conference with a bold pitch for the ‘centre-ground’ of British politics. It lacked real vision, it certainly lacked consistency, and it lacked policy commitments. But it did not lack chutzpah. Simply saying you are on the...

What does the centre-ground look like in a Brexit era? Gisela Stuart and Atul Hatwal survey the landscape. [column-group][column] Gisela Stuart The referendum in June changed a lot, but not everything. The fundamental rules of politics have not changed. You listen to...

Centre-ground politics will appear a quaint notion from inside the labyrinth of EU exit, warns Philip Collins Erdington’s most conspicuous landmark might yet become a metaphor for a government that loses the thread in a labyrinth. The prime minister’s co-chief of...