Cameron’s welfare plans risk making young people homeless
Without the safety net of a welfare system, many under-25s have no other means of supporting themselves.
Challenging Tory attacks on education can boost Labour’s support
It is by offering a progressive economic alternative to austerity that Labour can best reach out to a broad coalition of voters.
Is Clegg’s tax threshold plan the best way to reduce income inequality?
Nick Clegg’s tax threshold plans go half way to addressing the problem of working poverty, but it goes no way towards addressing the cause.
Boris is turning back the clock for women in London
Shelly Asquith reports on Tory London Mayor Boris Johnson’s sexist attitudes and anti-women policies.
Ken v Boris: Six months out, Livingstone steps up the pressure on transport and crime
The London Mayoral elections are now just six months away; to mark this point in the campaign, Labour’s Ken Livingstone unveiled several new policy developments.
Livingstone starts the mayoral race on policy, not personality
Left Foot Forward’s Shelly Asquith reports from London Mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone’s speech to the Labour Party conference.
New poll highlights Boris’s failures as Mayor of London
A poll of 1,000 Londoners reveals people are unhappy with the management of policing, housing and ticket pricing in the city on Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s watch.
Why Frank Field is wrong on women and welfare
Frank Field told the Progress Conference that Labour should not be a feminist party and that people are attracted to a life of joblessness, reports Shelly Asquith.
Vote 2011: Labour campaign diary
Labour activist Shelly Asquith continues Left Foot Forward’s dispatches from the front; the campaign diaries of party activists on the election trail.
British fashion’s got the talent, but have we got the funding?
At London Fashion Week, Samantha Cameron said: “We’ve got the talent and the expertise to take UK fashion even further.” She’s right – but do we have the funding?