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Young progressives Articles

A back-to-school Queen’s speech

The Labour party must look to education as a way of winning arguments and changing lives. It shows our commitment to communities; education is where the future is built. It is also vital to our fiscal credibility that we find the middle ground between overspending and...

How do you solve a problem like Boris?

Imagine it. Noon on a Wednesday, question number one Mr Speaker, order, order. All the pomp of prime minister’s questions centred on one man – arise prime minister Boris Johnson. It’s a little fanciful to indulge in such political nonsense. And we’re at least four...

The economic mea culpa

I don't know if you have seen the Labour party action plan for family budgets. Or our insistence that the NHS will be the defining issue at the next general election. Well, I'm sorry to tell you, it won't be. In the vein of Hopi Sen's great piece on the Challenge for...

The ‘Teflon Dave’ danger

Perhaps the most pertinent message I took away from Progress political weekend (apart, naturally, from the fact that Lord Mandelson’s politically astute presence can command a room like no other) came from the Times columnist and Tony Blair’s former speechwriter, Phil...