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The right does not do days like Fabian New Year conference, a Tory acquaintance once remarked to me. A thousand Conservatives just would not give up a Saturday for seven hours of policy debate. Labour activists are made of sterner stuff, it seems, as they prepare to...

Don't you just love the grand parliamentary traditions? Starting each session with the pomp of the state opening; beginning each day with prayers in the chamber; the final day before christmas when the government sneaks out bundles of controversial reports. With 424...

This week David Cameron committed the government to the regeneration and improvement of 100 of the country’s most run-down council estates. From a commitment to demolish and rebuild some of the very worst estates to more modest environmental improvements on others,...

All aboard the renationalisation express! Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour party leader has brought a number of policies back to centre stage, particularly the desire to renationalise the railways. This decision is controversial because it has direct impact over...