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In the early 1990s, Sedgefield Labour party received permission from head office to experiment with membership recruitment. The local party had already expanded its membership but we knew we could do more. Recruitment was important to us. Attracting Labour supporters...

New net migration statistics just published will have offered little reassurance to those voters in the United Kingdom who list immigration alongside the NHS and the economy as their top concerns. There is little public trust in the ability of the government to manage...

In the early days of the coalition government, when a quietly ambitious home secretary called Theresa May still had responsibility for equalities, one of her first decisions in post was to put a halt to the implementation of Labour's Equality Act in its entirety. The...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies yesterday published a report showing that the 18 per cent gender pay gap steadily worsens once women have children. Alongside better quality part-time jobs, affordable childcare, a living wage and equal pay audits, greater uptake of...