Rupa Huq Articles

This is the way to do prime minister's questions if you want to make sure the debate is held on your terms. It felt a bit like Jeremy Corbyn was battering David Cameron over the head with an iron bar as pounded him six times with the same questions about tax credit...

Today’s economy, while growing, is doing very little to push people out of low pay. Add to this the fact that, according to a BritainThinks poll, many Londoners class themselves as ‘outsiders’, struggling to succeed and believing that owning a home is a pipe dream....

In his 1934 work, English Journey, the writer JB Priestley spoke of three Englands. The first, the so-called ‘real, enduring England’ was the traditional bucolic vision – ‘the country of the cathedrals and ministers and manor houses and inns’. Then came the England of...

A more disparate group of authors than found in Blue or Purple books, this collection seeks to throw out an eclectic range of ‘lessons learnt’ plus thoughts for the future from activists and parliamentarians. The book’s weaknesses are: firstly, that Europe, the...