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George Osborne’s apparent U-turn on plans which could have seen him raid pensions tax relief which supports retirement saving by millions of British people does, on the surface at least, seem rather surprising. For weeks, acres of newsprint have been devoted to...

My first job after leaving student politics was to work for the All Party Parliamentary on combating Antisemitism. The inquiry commissioned by John Mann had a real impact and the then prime minister Tony Blair set up an inter-departmental committee to take forward its...

Free speech and robust debate have long been at the heart of Britain’s universities. Whether it be on campus or in the classroom, nobody should go to university and not expect to hear the beliefs and ideas they have grown up with challenged, tested and possibly...

Time Labour learned the difference between enemies and adversaries —Political turning points are not always dramatic. Sometimes they are signalled by the slow, sad note of a deflating balloon. So it was with the end of Labour and Liberal Democrat cooperation after the...