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Since 1918, a total of 450 women have sat in the Westminster parliament. 459 men sit in the current House of Commons. This means that, despite nearly a century of work, the entire number of women members of parliament ever elected has never outnumbered that of the men...

The priority of every Labour politician on television, radio and local media must be to make clear that the government has made a choice on tax credit cuts, that there is still time to change their minds, and that just a two year delay – elequently pointed out by...

Today I am speaking about social Europe at a conference in Copenhagen. Symbolically, we are at the offices of the Danish trade union, LO. This venue embodies the transition to the welfare state as we would like it to be from the reality of where we are at in the...

Last Friday, 1,000 people in the solar power industry were issued redundancy notices. Today the Trades Union Congress says that 27,000 more jobs in the renewables sector are at risk. At a time when the United Kingdom’s economy is far from recovered, the Tory...