Karin Smyth Articles

Labour should propose funding social care properly before looking to take over struggling providers, argues Edward Jones The realities of the pressures on social care were set out on Monday as care users gave evidence to the communities and local government select...

This edition of Progress is being guest-edited and written by women. So this column is dedicated to what I believe the young people call ‘signal boosting’, highlighting women whose contribution to the Labour party is unjustly underrated, misunderstood, or...

The Tories could be in power for a generation —We all expect the Tories to pull every trick in the book to retain the power they unexpectedly won by a short head in May. They will, of course, complement timely Treasury bribes with redrawn constituency boundaries. But...

Luciana Berger’s appointment as minister for mental health with shadow cabinet rank and her commitment at the Progress meeting on dementia is the best hope yet of getting much-needed action to tackle this health timebomb. Jeremy Hughes, Alzheimer Society chief...