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Handing over the reins

Progress has tried to lead the field on the representation of women in the Labour party. We were the first grouping to ban 'all-male panels' – long before my time, under the leadership of Jessica Asato – and pushed for the party to limit them at Labour party...

Can the Welfare State Survive?

What do the public care about? Well, outside immigration and the economy, the pollsters tell us that there is one other topic that dominates the national conversation: welfare. So what you make of the welfare state, and its future, is no small question in British...

Lifting the socio-economic glass ceiling

The Sutton Trust pioneered research into the educational backgrounds of those at the top of the United Kingdom’s professions when our first report, on the legal profession, was published a decade ago. Since then, we have studied a variety of fields: from members of...

Leveson, Labour and the last election

This has been published as a response to this month's Progress editorial – Time to stop blaming the media Margaret Beckett, in Labour’s election post-mortem, Learning the lessons from defeat, suggests – unsurprisingly – that the party’s principled support for the...