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In 1999, Labour pledged to eradicate child poverty by declaring that ‘no child be left behind’. Whilst in government, it was Labour’s determination to tackle inequality and promote social mobility that saw the creation of Sure Start and the establishment of a National...

Political parties, like people, have obsessions. They might be idiosyncratic or mainstream; based on evidence or a hunch; serious or minor. But, like an unreachable itch, all these obsessions demand to be scratched periodically and, in education policy, Tories are...

Having spent last week at the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia, it would have been hard not be inspired by the Clinton campaign. Sure enough, despite small protests from Bernie Sanders’ supporters (who represented no more than around five per cent of the...

Anyone who has canvassed in the South West will be familiar with the above words. If you are not in Exeter, Plymouth or Bristol, the perception among local voters is that the West Country is an electoral wilderness for Labour, and is doomed to be as such....