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EMAs Articles

Real change in Islington, fairness in tough times

These are very difficult times for councils. We’re in the middle of the biggest funding cut since the second world war – figures out this week show that areas with high levels of deprivation, like Islington, are seeing our budgets slashed by almost 10 times the amount...

Don’t forget about apprenticeships

So youth unemployment has hit the one million mark. There was cartoon in Monday's Times that perfectly summed up David Cameron’s position on the issue. It showed him trying to blame everyone and everything other than himself, unsurprisingly. So if our prime minister...

What the Covenant says about Cameron

As I said in parliament, by enshrining the military covenant in law the government has done the right thing for the wrong reasons. They switched their policy in the face of likely defeat in parliament. Everyone involved in the campaign deserves congratulations in forcing what I believe is an important government U-turn.

Give the ‘next generation’ the vote

Andrew Bettridge asks if the coalition’s policies towards young people would have been quite so destructive, had there been votes at 16?