Stephen Twigg today warns Michael Gove’s Ebacc plans risk “ushering in a decade of economic decline”, taking Britain back to a ’19th-century education system’.
Ed Balls today set out plans for a compulsory jobs guarantee for the long-term unemployed – ensuring there is a job for every adult who is long-term unemployed.
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After a week of silence, the NRA gave its response to the Newtown massacre today – with a call for guns, guns and more guns. Gun control? Not a word of it.
Michael Gove was attacked by Labour today for “actively damaging school sport” for the delay in the unveiling of a new £100 million school sport policy.
A new report from Macmillan Cancer Support today shows older cancer patients continue to be under-treated – often with devastating consequences.
Watch Shadow Leader of the House Angela Eagle bring down the house on the last day before Christmas this morning, injecting festive cheer to proceedings.
The TUC have said the government’s latest employment reforms “will not save a single job” but instead “make it easier to sack people”.
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Theresa May yesterday said house prices could be “10 per cent lower over a 20-year period” if net migration was cut to zero – claims which don’t quite add up.
