Exclusive: Do the party conference tax announcements stack up?
Spencer Thompson has picked apart the conference announcements of Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems – so which party will benefit whom?
Labour
UKIP policies: dangerous, costly and yes, racist
We don’t need to go trawling through old manifestos and historic statements; it’s right there on their website.
Scottish Labour faces crisis of its own making
For too long Labour has taken Scotland for granted. It is now paying the price.
Tristram Hunt’s Hippocratic oath: a bad policy from a weak shadow education secretary
Attention is now focused on the fallout from Hunt’s policy rather than where it should be – on coalition education policy.
Exclusive: An open letter to Iain Duncan Smith: Universal Credit questions that need answering
Existing problems with Universal credit risk being replicated unless you resolve them.
SNP most trusted to deliver for Scotland – Labour’s problems mount up
In Glasgow, 40 per cent trusted the SNP most compared to 16 per cent who said Labour.
Disabled people know what it will take to help them into work. Will Labour listen?
Labour must prove it has changed its spots since the days of hiring Lord Freud as welfare reform adviser under Tony Blair.
The Lyons Review: Britain’s housing crisis – and how we solve it
Labour has published its plans on how it will deliver 200,000 homes a year in the UK.
Older women are demanding a better deal and Labour must deliver it
The UK has a 43 per cent gap between pensions received by men and women – the third highest level in the EU.
Labour’s Scottish headache continues
Ed Miliband would do well to start fighting with ‘every fibre of his being’ in Scotland.