Waltham Forest Articles

Theresa May had a pretty bad start to the year with resignation of Sir Ivan Rogers as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the European Union. It was unfortunate for her that his email to all staff was leaked to the media. His warning about 'muddled thinking' should be...

Among the news this week, you might have missed one seemingly unimportant piece. Eric Pickles’ department has decided that English councillors, GLA members and the mayor of London will be forced to leave the local government pension scheme from May. Unlike members of...

This time last year, David Cameron was mocking Ed Miliband for advocating ‘predistribution’. Ed argued for a move away from an approach to low pay based purely on top-ups through the tax and welfare systems towards one in which welfare becomes less necessary as...

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...