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The economy

Ideas for Labour to help SMEs recover

Ben Fox

Having had the dubious pleasure of reading the coalition's green paper boldly titled ‘Financing a private sector recovery', I can safely say that I haven't read such vacuous contradictory rubbish in a long time.

30 Jul 2010 12:20

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Progress Magazine

Ed Thornton

Centre-left thinktanks put their rivalries to one side last month and joined together to host one of the first hustings in a lengthy Labour leadership campaign. Ed Thornton judges who's got talent...

30 Jul 2010 09:50

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Michael Stephenson, Co-operative party

Who remembers back in February when George Osborne laughingly tried to explain how a Conservative government would set up worker cooperatives to run public services?

29 Jul 2010 15:25

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The Politics of Poverty

Steve Cockburn

With rightwing hawks circling the ringfenced aid budget, ‘Value for Money' is the new mantra ringing through DfID's Palace Street offices. But how does this stack up against some of the government's early aid decisions?

29 Jul 2010 14:05

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Progress Magazine

Anthony Painter

Labour's leadership contenders see the party building a movement for change. But have they got it the wrong way around? The Obama and the conservative movements, and Labour's own history, may show us the answer.

29 Jul 2010 10:00

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Progress Magazine

Lance Price

Alastair Campbell's diaries chart the twists and turns of the pre-1997 Labour party in incredible detail, bringing back to life the sometimes maddening personalities and politics of the era

28 Jul 2010 13:58

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Ed Thornton and Adam Harrison

Ed Miliband speaks to Progress about making politics relevant to voters, how the Labour leadership can democratise the party and lead even in the face of disagreement, and why small businesses are natural Labour allies

28 Jul 2010 08:30

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Web exclusive

Petros Fassoulas, European Movement

It is safe to say that Mr Cameron is not a passionate supporter of many EU policies but if there is one that he wholeheartedly supports then that is the process of EU enlargement. But is his eagerness to accelerate Turkey's accession good for the EU?

27 Jul 2010 16:11

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Web exclusive

Andrew Pakes

It should be an auspicious occasion: the presentation of the first ever energy statement to parliament. In reality, the statement will be overshadowed by the latest boardroom twists in BP and a failure of Chris Huhne to shake off concerns about Tory plans for cuts.

27 Jul 2010 14:37

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Web exclusive

Rachel Reeves MP

He may be less well known now, but within a short space of time as leader Ed Miliband would be able to win back the voters we lost after 1997 and set a course for the future to deal with the problems the UK faces

27 Jul 2010 14:10

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Web exclusive

Richard Darlington

Labour's leadership used to love a good fight at party conference. What better way to show a modern and forward-looking policy agenda than getting the ‘dinosaurs' to oppose it?

27 Jul 2010 12:30

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Web exclusive

Caroline Flint MP

The government's U-turn on rape anonymity is to be welcomed. But it only came about after unrelenting questioning from MPs at every turn, placing a confused ministry of justice firmly in the spotlight.

27 Jul 2010 09:10

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Progress Magazine

Caroline Flint MP

We need to manage EU migration in a way that recognises how we benefit from it, but also deals with the pressures it creates - something Labour leadership contenders have been mulling over

26 Jul 2010 14:25

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Web exclusive

Adam Harrison

The Bassetlaw primary results are in, and the selectorate has chosen David Miliband as their candidate for next Labour leader with over 50 per cent of the vote

26 Jul 2010 12:00

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Kate comments

Kate Green MP

Ken Clarke is reportedly at odds with Cameron on penal policy. But before Labour crows at yet another coalition split (and all within the Tories this time) let's be careful to consider the evidence on crime and justice.

26 Jul 2010 10:00

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Paul's week in politics

Paul Richards

Absorbing this latest news, Paul Richards says we need more - not less - reform on the lines of the smoking ban to win proper health equality in the UK, and that the Tories will succumb to the food industry push for the status quo

23 Jul 2010 12:15

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Web exclusive

Ben Fox

As the new quango's independence comes under greater scrutiny, the question needs to be asked: what is this body worth if it is neither big enough nor separate enough from the treaury to provide full statistical forecasts?

23 Jul 2010 11:30

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Progress Magazine

Siobhain McDonagh MP

As a party we could no longer understand why someone might want to build a conservatory - this goes some way to explaining Labour's 2010 general election loss

23 Jul 2010 10:01

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Web exclusive

Denis MacShane MP

For the Westminster media bubble a row over a Sheffield heavy engineering firm will sound like a small fight about a faraway place of which they would rather know nothing.

22 Jul 2010 16:02

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Web exclusive

Lucy Gill

The most worrying thing about Peter Mandelson's book is not that it reveals any Dangerous Liaisons-style revelations. It is that, at times, he relays hard truths to Labour which few may be willing to hear

22 Jul 2010 13:35

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Commons people

Jonathan Reynolds

Colleagues, the press, my constituents - wherever I go it's the question I am asked most. Like speculation over a celebrity marriage, we're all wondering if the coalition will go the full five years or if it will all end in tears much before then.

22 Jul 2010 09:25

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Web exclusive

Christine Quigley

The government has followed the progressive campaign to broaden bank access to customer via the Post Office. But we can go still further in using the Post Office to help tackle financial exclusion - here's how.

22 Jul 2010 08:40

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Progress Magazine

Tom Brooks Pollock

The success of groups like London Citizens comes at a time when people are shunning mainstream politics. How can community organising mesh with local politics?

21 Jul 2010 15:00

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PMQs on Progress

Luke Akehurst, Stephen Longden and Phil Taylor discuss (and disagree on) who won, and single out the best backbencher, regular Progress writer Kate Green MP winning many plaudits for her incisive policy question on the DLA

21 Jul 2010 13:16

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PMQs on Progress

Paul Richards

Nick Clegg must have woken up this morning and pinched himself - PMQs! Who woulda thunk it? Jack Straw gets a cheer before he says a word - ironic from the government benches, genuine from ours...

21 Jul 2010 12:38

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