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Gregg McClymont Articles

No sacred cows

Labour revisionism takes on both leftwing orthodoxy and the destructive potential of capitalism, writes Gregg McClymont Each generation must overturn the conventional wisdoms of the last. In social democracy this process for more than a century has been called...

Hard won, easily lost

Hard won and easily lost, credibility is an asset that all government ministers covet. Without it, they find themselves defenceless as confidence drains away. This is the danger Steve Webb now faces. When the government announced the move to a flat rate state pension...

Defending the investments of the low paid

Over the decades the Labour movement has always championed workers’ rights. But we must also champion the rights of working people as capital holders, as investors in the stock market, especially through their pension savings. This is why today I introduced my...

Labour’s got talent

It finally happened. As predicted here, after being delayed by Syria and conference, it was politically exposed, middle-aged male former ministers who found themselves shunted from the shadow cabinet. This was seen as a cull of Blairites, but then the new people...