Nick Clegg
Unravelling the Lib Dem spin that they’re ending child detention
Labour MP Lisa Nandy is correct to point out that Nick Clegg has reneged on his promise to end child detention, writes End Child Detention Now’s Simon Parker.
Lib Dems: We *are* delivering on our End Child Detention pledge
Tom Brake MP, chair of the Lib Dem Parliamentary Policy Committee on Home Affairs, explains the progress made by the coalition govt. in ending child detention.
Nick Clegg dodges, again, the question of what he’s doing to end child detention
Labour MP for Wigan Lisa Nandy writes about deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s failure, once again, to answer questions on his pledge to end child detention.
Clegg under fire over voter registration, party funding and youth unemployment
Nick Clegg was grilled on boundary changes, the voter registration reforms, party funding, youth unemployment and child detention at DPMQ’s in the Commons today.
Why won’t the government walk the walk when it comes to unpaid internships?
Gus Baker, co-director of Intern Aware, writes about how the government needs to start acting on its harsh words on unpaid internships.
RGF’s foot-dragging and half-measures leave regional economies in the cold
Kevin Meagher explains why even now the Regional Growth Fund money is finally starting to be allocated, everything is far from rosy in their implementation.