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‘English Votes for English Laws’ has always been seen within Labour ranks as a cynical, partisan Tory ploy. In origin it was, of course: one part of a gerrymanderer’s charter that includes boundary changes, individual electoral registration and extending the overseas...

An IPPR report published this week found that mothers are the breadwinners for one in three families with dependent children in the United Kingdom today. The proportion of mothers earning half or more of the family income has increased considerably in the last two...

The current crisis in United Kingdom steelmaking has exposed the ‘northern powerhouse’ for what it is truly is – a sham. Behind the government’s claims to be creating a ‘march of the makers’, rebalancing the economy away from financial services towards manufacturing...

This week, President Xi Jinping of China will land in Heathrow, where he will be greeted by David Cameron and the prime minister’s signature ‘salesman-like’ smile. This will be the same prime minister who just a year ago said ‘we should stand up for… the important...