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Article - Published in Prospect magazine - 22 May 2013
Balancing the national budget presents a double challenge for Labour. The first challenge is economic; the second political.
Article - Published in The Independent - 09 May 2013
It is about time the Church became serious about politics.
Article - Published in The Independent - 25 April 2013
An underclass has been established in this country.
Article - Published in The Sunday Times - 21 April 2013
It is against a background of embedded dependency that the government’s latest set of welfare reforms need to be judged.
Article - Published in The Times - 18 April 2013
The affluent and the multinationals are not behaving as she would have.
Article - Published in The Guardian - 11 April 2013
Labour's answer to the problem of how to make work pay cannot be yet more tax credits
Article - Published in The Telegraph - 28 March 2013
The Coalition is making headway in tackling large-scale immigration, but it needs to do far more.
Article - Published in The Liverpool Echo - 04 March 2013
Sometimes a letter from one of my constituents stops me in my tracks.
I guessed that voting for gay marriage would cost votes. And so it should be if some voters believe this to be a determining issue at the general election.
Article - Published in The Sunday Times - 03 March 2013
‘It is so unfair. Our welfare state is a soft touch for anyone who cares to claim benefit. Does it always have to be like this?” These are the cries of my constituents who value being respectable and who feel our welfare rules make a laughing stock of them. They see some local people making little or no effort to find work and for whom the authorities seem to fall over backwards to help.
Article - Published in The Sunday Times - 03 March 2013
Britain must abolish its needs-based benefits system and return to the ideal of claimants paying for what they get through insurance.