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Dialogue on a doorstep this week: Man: ‘I've given up on Labour. I'm Scottish now – SNP all the way.’ Me: ‘Is there anything specific putting you off Labour?’ Man: ‘Everything! Now you've let us down again.’ If drawing a pen picture of a 'core Labour voter' this man...

The business, innovation and skills select committee, which I sit on, has just published its report into George Osborne’s much-hyped Productivity Plan which he unveiled last summer. Unfortunately like so many of the chancellor’s grand announcements, once you look at...

England is becoming an increasingly divided nation where life chances are determined by postcode, rather than potential. The latest report of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission lays bare the opportunity gulf between different parts of the country and, as...

In his leader's speech to Labour party conference in 2011, Ed Miliband distinguished between two types of business: ‘predators’ and ‘producers’. He promised to crack down on the former. He was on to something at least insofar as he recognised there are good and bad...