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There has been a lot of recent discussion about affordable housing, including proposals to extend the right to buy scheme. As a council tenant who lives in an adapted flat, I cannot buy it because there are so few adapted flats that disabled people are often exempt...

Devolution is the buzzword of the day in the Conservative party and also in the Labour ranks (though some leadership contenders were late converters), but last week we saw just how shallow its meaning really is. Several months ago, 93 borough, city and county councils...

It is a cliché to say that being the leader of the opposition is the toughest job in politics. Perhaps it is time to revise that statement: the political and organisational challenges that will face the next one will be nothing like those facing the new Liberal...

David Cameron has now laid out his plan to reform the European Union – or, rather, to weaken Britain’s role in the union to please his own backbenchers. What Labour must now do is lead, not follow, laying out an alternative programme of reform and build the case for...