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The government’s plans to scrap the legal duty to accurately and comprehensively monitor the number of children living in low-income families have – thankfully – been firmly rejected by the House of Lords. However, these plans will go back to the Commons and are still...

It is fair to say that 2015 was a difficult year for pollsters. Despite some successes (correctly calling the Scottish National party surge in Scotland and Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the Labour party) they got the one that mattered most wrong. They called...

Jeremy Corbyn was right to attack David Cameron on his barely thought through housing announcement. Cameron was right to say that many high rise estates need to be replaced, but we need to challenge the prime minister on his throwaway comment that these estates were...

I suspect Gloria de Piero’s shameless plug of this book in last week’s Stylist magazine may raise its profile more than my few thoughts on it published here. My copy of Five Million Conversations is already better thumbed than my candidate’s copy of our general...