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Yet again, this week’s unemployment figures sparked reams of commentary on the 0.1 percentage point fall in unemployment. But, while observers are understandably drawn toward these marginal changes, it’s important to focus on the big number: 2.5 million unemployed –...

The IDS-Cait Reilly spat has been both amusing and illuminating, but it poses big questions for Labour, as well as the government. The government has to answer why its flagship policy – the work programme – is going so badly. Before the programme started, the Treasury...

If Ed Miliband is serious in his claim that this will be a 'one-term Tory government' as he asserted in the Guardian this weekend, then an alternative Queen's speech is not only desirable but necessary. As we approach the halfway point of this parliament, Labour must...