Gordon Brown’s proposed elected upper chamber could protect plans to decentralise power, but it’s arguably not in the Labour party’s interest to introduce one.
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Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, Africa has slipped from its precarious but tangible place in UK political discourse.
Previous government bailouts have set a precedent for intervention in the cost of living crisis
Here’s how the government can provide clarity on the volatile cost of living crisis
Anti-celebrity politicians succeed by styling themselves as authentic alternatives to more showy statesmen.
Gordon Brown is worried. So should we all be.
When researchers looked at how people’s music choices and professions lined up, the results were intriguing.
Action on Sugar doesn’t think much of David Cameron’s childhood obesity strategy, but will May do any better?
The former PM is appealing to British exceptionalism in the right way.
Staying in would enable the UK to play an active role in tackling the most pressing issues of the day, from tax evasion to terrorism, the former PM argued.
Elected in the party’s biggest ever wipeout, Labour’s 1983 intake of MPs could be about to notch up its third party leader.
So much change is coming to Westminster’s Scottish component. Alas so much us also staying the same.
Britain is now in full general election countdown mode – and the polls indicate another hung parliament is the most likely outcome on May 7. Gus O’Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, recently reflected…
In the week Gordon Brown announced he will stand down from his Westminster constituency at the May 2015 general election, two central observations come to mind. From the Brown government to its Cameron-Clegg…
Gordon Brown will retire from the Commons viewed on the one hand as a giant of Scottish Labour who spent 13 years at the pinnacle of frontline UK politics as chancellor and prime minister: the son of the…
First the No victory in the Scottish referendum, now the debate about how much extra power should be extended north of the border. While the commission tasked with coming up with proposals prepares to…
The government is unveiling commemorative paving stones laid in the birth places of those members of the British Empire forces in World War I who received the Victoria Cross for their bravery. The government’s…
In the last three weeks of the Scottish referendum campaign, Gordon Brown had already emerged as the galvanising force on the No side. This reached new heights on Wednesday in Glasgow when he made what…
When the television debates on Scottish independence were announced in the early summer, many observers suggested that Alistair Darling would be a lamb to the slaughter, with Alex Salmond playing the wolf…
In the current debate on independence, journalists and commentators regularly claim that “devo max” is the favoured option of a majority of the Scottish people, and some express an expectation that this…
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