The word 'historic' is overused but this week’s first state visit to Britain by an Irish president qualifies for that...
The word 'historic' is overused but this week’s first state visit to Britain by an Irish president qualifies for that...
Fifteen years ago, on 1 April 1999, a national minimum wage was finally implemented. It was set at £3.60 per hour,...
Ed Miliband’s patron Neil Kinnock knows only too well from his own pre-election snub by Ronald Reagan that attempts by...
The choice of the next leader of the Scottish Labour party will be vital to Labour’s hopes of winning power not just...
Labour’ position on Europe has hardened. Last week Douglas Alexander said, ‘Our task is to tell a new story about...
Today’s PMQs opened with a solemn set of tributes to those members of the forces who have died since the last weekly...
I wanted to use my column this week to encourage anyone who hasn’t already done so to read Ed Miliband's important...
So youth unemployment has hit the one million mark. There was cartoon in Monday's Times that perfectly summed up David...
Who won? The three themes of today’s PMQs were job losses, poppies and border controls and there wasn’t much else....
Speech to Labour North-West conference, 5 November 2011 We meet at a time of challenge and opportunity for the Labour...
Teddy Ryan gives Ed a clear victory in today's PMQs as David Cameron's tired attacks grow ever more shrill. WHO WON?...
For those of us who are Labour activists in Kent, this has been the year we began to pull ourselves out of the...