LFIG Articles

I have been asked to write a few words about the cost of being a prospective parliamentary candidate. Where to begin? The first thing to say is that I remain convinced that being selected as the PPC for my party and for my home town was an enormous privilege – a life...

Small firms and the self-employed will be watching with interest to see how much fibre is in today's budget or whether it will be lots of froth and topping. In short, they will be watching to see if it will deliver some real measurable change and improvement or just...

On placing a commitment to the self-employed and freelance workers at the heart of his election pledges Ed Miliband said that the self-employed are often the ‘most entrepreneurial, go-getting people in Britain’. He backed this up by making a conference pledge to...

The abolition, in a fit of pique, of the Greater London Council by Margaret Thatcher robbed London of a much-needed level of strategic government for nearly 20 years. So, when Labour brought in the London mayoralty in 2000, it rectified the result of a huge error of...