Claire Kober Articles

Come along to this weekend's conference, Governing for Britain: Local answers to national questions – get your ticket here ———————————— Julia Langdon, former political editor of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Telegraph, said on Radio 4 recently that she did not want to...

It is not true to say that Westminster has all the big ideas and local government gets on with the small things – it’s the other way round at the moment, leader of Corby borough council Tom Beattie tells chair of Progress Alison McGovern as she tours the country...

Today’s economy, while growing, is doing very little to push people out of low pay. Add to this the fact that, according to a BritainThinks poll, many Londoners class themselves as ‘outsiders’, struggling to succeed and believing that owning a home is a pipe dream....

—Stephen Twigg’s recent speech, No School Left Behind, can best be thought of as a kind of schooling ‘births, marriages and deaths’ column. The ‘deaths’ in question are those of the national curriculum as we have known it, and the free schools policy as it has been...