Brent Articles

Dad works as a security guard between 9pm and 9am. Mum is offered a cleaning job working 6am to 2pm. Who will look after their toddler between Mum leaving for work and Dad getting home? Dad works as a driver: four days on, four days off. Mum is offered work in a shop...

Yesterday Brent council became the first local authority in the country to pass a policy which will see businesses in the borough who pay their staff a living wage receive discounts on their business rates of up to £5000. We know that it makes business sense to pay...

Brent Central is a north-west London seat whose residents have voted Labour and Liberal Democrat in local and national elections over the past decade. The outcome next May could well indicate the shape of the government to come. Brent Central is a lively, vibrant and...

Like many activists who live in other regions, I was pleased with the electoral triumph in May of Labour in London. But reading all those celebratory tweets from those who ran Labour’s national campaign, I felt a sense of unease because the London effect seems to be...