Michael Heseltine Articles

The new proposal in Rachel Reeves’ speech is to be welcomed – young people lacking literacy, numeracy and IT skills would be required to undertake training in order to qualify for jobseeker’s allowance. So far so good. But we need a much more joined-up approach here....

Five years of economic downturn plus three years of blatantly unfair cuts have certainly taken their toll on Manchester, but the city is undoubtedly still in a much better position than it was 30 years ago. Then, a combination of recession, government cuts,...

Stephen Bush takes the temperature in three battleground seats Labour and the Tories are targeting ‘IN 2015,’ Labour organiser Eleanor Brown tells me, ‘if we win here, we’ll know that we’ve taken back the country.’ ‘Here’ is Harlow, a satellite town just 45 minutes...

It may not be immediately clear what Michael Heseltine, Andrew Adonis, corporate director Andrew Churchill and the TUC’s Frances O’Grady have in common, but last week’s TUC After Austerity debate showed they all believe active government has an important role to play...