budget Articles

Follow all of today's budget as it happens, with reaction and comment from Stuart Hudson, Claire Reynolds, and the Progress team. Stuart Hudson is a former adviser to Gordon Brown. Claire Reynolds is a councillor on Tameside council Photo: BBC News ———————————-...

For those of us who grew up with a Labour government making a difference to our lives at nearly every step along the way, election defeats and the simple paralysis of opposition feel particularly cruel. The cruelty was not just the realisation that this was a Labour...

Nothing drives the alienation of the public from the political process more than when the Westminster lobby and the national media conspires to push an agenda that the public does not like, want or accept. Such an agenda was advertised nationally after this week’s...

At business questions this week I raised the government’s track record of avoiding scrutiny. On the European arrest warrant, on the Agricultural Wages Board and now on plain packaging of cigarettes, instead of trying to win the argument they just try to avoid having...