Gideon Amos MP: ‘Don’t just build houses, start designing communities’
The towns and cities we build must start with a simple, often neglected principle: decisions about housing and infrastructure should improve our quality of life. We need homes, services and infrastructure that meet people’s needs. But the answer cannot simply be to just build with little regard for the places people already call home. To […]
Steve Darling MP: ‘The government has a proven lever for growth in its hands – it’s called Access to Work’
We don’t talk enough about the power of the disabled workforce to kickstart the nation’s ailing economy. Barely a week goes by that we don’t lament our flatlining productivity, with pundits and politicians often portraying disabled people as a contributing factor. And yet we fail to notice the unused levers that can help to stimulate […]
Pippa Heylings MP: ‘Is the Treasury sabotaging Britain’s climate leadership?’
Although it may have been lost amid the doom-laden headlines emerging after COP30 in Brazil, something genuinely hopeful did emerge from the UN Climate Conference: a game-changing global plan to safeguard the planet’s remaining tropical forests. The Tropical Forests Forever Facility, or TFFF, is an innovative finance mechanism that would become one of the largest […]
Michael Wheeler: ‘We must not let a Tory-Lib Dem alliance weaken the workers’ rights bill’
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill is set to fundamentally improve work for the millions of workers stuck on exploitative short and zero-hours contracts. But it’s not a done deal — key hurdles still need to be overcome to deliver what we promised at the last election. Not least the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who have been […]
MPs to vote on making Premier League games free-to-air
The coming 2025-26 season is the first season of the Premier League’s new TV rights deal with Sky Sports and TNT Sports.
Ian Sollom: ‘Why the UK needs a national strategy for mathematics’
The role of mathematics in everyday life often goes unnoticed, but its importance and reach affect the here and now, as well as the future of our country. I believe now is the time for the government to introduce a national strategy for mathematics – something I called for recently when I led a Westminster […]
Starmer urged to ‘change course’ as disability cuts could see 1.3m claimants lose out
More than 1.3 million people claiming Personal Independence Payments (Pip) are at risk of losing support under new government rules, according to an analysis by the Liberal Democrats. Research conducted by the Lib Dems, based on government data issued in response to a written parliamentary question, reveals that 1.1 million standard-rate Pip claimants and 200,000 […]
Conservative Party slumps to fourth behind Lib Dems, new poll shows
The survey looks set to increase pressure on Kemi Badenoch after her party’s historically poor performance at the local elections.
The London Fire Brigade can’t be allowed to dodge reform
As London continues to grapple with the Casey Review into the Metropolitan Police, another critical emergency service, the London Fire Brigade, has largely slipped out of the spotlight since Nazir Afzal’s watershed report exposed a culture of institutional racism and misogyny back in 2022. Nonetheless, as a new Fire Commissioner prepares to take the helm, […]
What’s at stake in England’s local elections?
Voters across England are heading to the polls as Keir Starmer’s government readies for its first major interaction with the electorate since winning office in July last year. Labour is preparing for a difficult set of results — but it is Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative Party that is most exposed today. Of the 1,641 council seats […]
