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The last Labour government is one we can all be proud of, write Richard Angell and Conor Pope. This is the introduction for the Record pamphlet, marking the 20th anniversary of the 1997 election victory ‘If we don’t say the last Labour government was good, why would...

The delightful counties of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire contain four parliamentary seats, all of which have been Labour, which we need to win again if we are to have a good chance of achieving a majority government in 2015. Taken together these seats are perhaps...

Are we about to see a transparency bill that doesn’t increase transparency? The government this week announced that it intends to introduce a political transparency bill before the summer recess. Now the first thing to understand about the proposed bill is that it...

With temperatures predicted to drop over the weekend I thought I would pass on some recommended reading to help Progress members pass the cold winter evenings. The Whole of Government Accounts may seem like a rather ‘dry’ and daunting read, but it is a must for...