Bob Ainsworth Articles

It is a new year in Westminster, so it must be time for new chiefs of staff. Labour’s top two, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, have found themselves new men, and their choices for chief consigliere say as much about each man as their policy announcements. Miliband chose the...

The future of the United Kingdom, the economy placed on negative outlook, visits to the Vatican, Paris and Edinburgh – parliament may have been in recess last week but politics continued apace. They return to Westminster today facing a packed parliamentary agenda, not...

I am a confirmed believer in local government. Taking decisions as close as possible to the people involved makes good sense and we are in my view an overly centralised country. But I can’t get enthusiastic about the current anaemic form of local government that we...