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Labour needs to defend low-income families The chancellor made a great play in his July budget of announcing the introduction of a new national living wage which, by April 2020, will be over £9 an hour. He claimed this would help working families earn more. However,...

It has been some time since the last prime minister’s questions, just before conference season began, and it is fair to say a lot has happened in the meantime. In today’s performance David Cameron appeared confident and statesmanlike in his delivery, perhaps...

After all the strange events of this political summer, the minds of the party strategists, commentators and pollsters are starting to focus on the large batch of elections that are taking place on 5 May 2016 in every part of the United Kingdom, one of only two sets of...

Labour under Corbyn cannot provide effective opposition, say Labour centrists miserably. I heard a version of that line again and again during the Labour party conference; and anxiety will be running higher still after David Cameron’s confident speech at the...