Tag: Domestic Policy

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Tom Hayes MP

Labour’s Energy Mission: Taking Back Control of our Energy Future

The cost-of-living crisis has been a disaster for businesses and working people. Every surgery appointment, every community visit, every door knocking session, I hear how the wages that once supported families now fall far short. This is why tackling energy costs is Labour’s priority. And it’s a vital one. Our

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Chris Curtis

To Build the Next Generation of New Towns, We Need to Empower SMEs

Growing up in Milton Keynes, I saw firsthand how planning with purpose transforms lives. My hometown wasn’t built by accident; it was designed with ambition, shaped by Labour values, and delivered at scale. We didn’t just build houses. We built communities, infrastructure, and opportunity. Now, as the newly elected MP

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Dr Sophy Antrobus

The Strategic Defence Review – An Assessment

After months of waiting, we finally got to see the recommendations made to government in the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) on 2nd June. The Review was conducted differently from previous iterations. It was delivered by three independent advisors, a politician, a soldier, and a foreign policy expert (as they put

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Josh Arnold-Forster

The SDR – People, Equipment or Both?

The publication of the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) and then the Spending Review raise the usual questions about affordability and funding priorities. Will the hopeful recommendations set out in the SDR (a work in progress) be delivered by the expected increases in defence spending set out in the Spending Review?

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Alice Macdonald MP

Financing a New Future for International Development

The Gleneagles Summit 2005, Eriko Sugita / Reuters 20 years ago, the words of Nelson Mandela rang out in Trafalgar Square. He called on the world to Make Poverty History stating that ‘as long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest’.

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Dr Harry Pitts

Putting Industrial Policy in its Place

Securonomics and Reindustrialisation Between Defence, Digital and Decarbonisation In the UK and across Europe people who feel that they and their communities have been left out of security and prosperity are biting back at the ballot box.  A string of far right successes on the continent and now the rise

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Joe Pollard

Understanding the Immigration White Paper

On Monday, May 19th, the Government introduced the Restoring Control over the Immigration System white paper, the latest piece of legislation designed to meet Labour’s 2024 manifesto commitment to reduce net migration. This is an area in need of policy intervention and the political timing following the local elections is

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Tom Collinge

What are we talking about, when we talk about Industrial Strategy?

Can Industrial Strategy do everything Labour hopes? This summer the government will publish it’s Industrial Strategy. It will be plan for growth, for the environment, for security, and for regenerating communities.  All things that the country urgently needs, but can, and should Industrial Strategy deliver them all?  In this paper

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