﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Frank Field News</title><link>http://www.frankfield.com/newsfeed.aspx</link><description>The latest news from Frank Field</description><copyright>(c) 2011, Frank Field MP. All rights reserved.</copyright><ttl>5</ttl><item><title>Does this Government know anything about governing?</title><description>ANY country needs good government and never more so than when it is trying to face up to the mega-crisis we are in. Last week's Queen's Speech crystallised my misgivings about the Coalition. 
If...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102453</link><pubDate>Sun, 14May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mr Murdoch deserves all that will now befall him</title><description>WHAT are we to do with Rupert Murdoch? Enhanced Coverage LinkingRupert Murdoch?  -Search using:News, Most Recent 60 DaysBiographies Plus NewsParliament's Media Select Committee has put on its black...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102454</link><pubDate>Sun, 7May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Frank Field challenges Minister on social housing allocation </title><description>Frank Field MP has challenged the Housing Minister, Grant Shapps MP, on new figures showing that 20 per cent of social housing in London has been allocated to non-British nationals. 
 
Frank Field...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102452</link><pubDate>Tue, 2May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>We need a new dynamic poverty measure</title><description>Today Frank Field MP speaks at the Policy Exchange conference ‘Towards a Better Child Poverty Target’ to argue for moving from a financial definition of poverty to one that centres on life chances....</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102450</link><pubDate>Sun, 30Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pre-Budget report to blame for double-dip recession</title><description>THIS week's release of official figures showing Britain sliding back into recession is very bad news. That they are politically damaging to the Government is the least of my concerns. 

The plain...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102451</link><pubDate>Sun, 30Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Donor scandal may cement Tory image as party of the rich</title><description>THE dependence of all three political parties on big donations to run their machines is again in the news. This time we see how the Tories are dependent on a very few rich male donors.
How big will...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102448</link><pubDate>Sun, 2Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The open door lobby has lost the argument over immigration</title><description>A BBC-COMMISSIONED survey showed that 94% of us think the country is full up. Not surprisingly, a government poll showed 75% of voters wanted to see the immigration figures coming down, and half the...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102449</link><pubDate>Sun, 26Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Saddened to see devolution issue reduced to row over money</title><description>I AM still reeling from the shock of appearing on the BBC's Question Time programme last week. 
</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102447</link><pubDate>Sun, 19Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>We need to take action over Syria and you can help</title><description>What in heaven’s name should we do about Syria? Commentators are pretty unanimous in arguing for a “sitting on our hands” operation. And the politicians have followed suit.
</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102445</link><pubDate>Sun, 12Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Frank launches moves to bring the Syrian regime to trial for crimes against humanity</title><description>Frank has today begun an attempt to get the Syrian president and Government before the International Criminal Court to answer for their crimes against humanity by launching a new E-Petition. But he...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102446</link><pubDate>Sun, 12Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How changing life chances will change the distribution of income</title><description>In ten years Reform, more than any other body, has changed how politics works in this country. An obsession in believing that more money is the answer to practically every problem is giving way to a...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102443</link><pubDate>Wed, 1Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Don’t send Oxton to the dogs</title><description>Chair of the Oxton Labour Action Team, Matthew Patrick is holding a public meeting on Friday 9th March, 7:30pm, at the Trinity with Palm Grove Church (63 Alton Road, Oxton, CH43 1UZ), following...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102441</link><pubDate>Tue, 29Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Truly Representative Lords</title><description>Much of the previous government’s time was spent on reforming our constitution. In none of the background papers, nor in the subsequent debate, did any Minister set out the principals which underpin...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102442</link><pubDate>Tue, 29Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Labour needs to get in first to speak up for English voters</title><description>You may have noticed the Prime Minister is beginning to devote more of his time to the Scottish Question. He was up there recently wooing voters with a pledge that he would be prepared to concede...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102440</link><pubDate>Sun, 27Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>We must give children a chance to lift them from poverty</title><description>THE Liverpool City Region's Child Poverty and Life Chances Commission published its first report last week, but will it make any difference? Will it lead to real change? The commission was...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102438</link><pubDate>Sun, 13Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Children in care</title><description>The 903 children reported to have been taken into care last month ("Children in care at record as parents given fewer chances", Feb 9) are but the tip of an iceberg of cruelty and neglect.

I...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102439</link><pubDate>Thu, 10Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Frank leads calls for changes in Wirral council management</title><description>Frank used a Westminster Hall debate yesterday to accuse unnamed Wirral council officers of “crass inefficiency” which has cost the town £60 million in missed development projects.</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/local-news/news.aspx?p=102437</link><pubDate>Tue, 8Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Government cap is far too crude to work everywhere </title><description>LABOUR learned one big lesson from the £26,000 cap on benefits debate. The Tories did not.

Let me rewind the film. Last year, the Tories introduced a huge Welfare Reform Bill. It had one main aim...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102436</link><pubDate>Sun, 6Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>We should ghettoise these neighbours from Hell </title><description>THE most common complaint at my surgery comes from decent families living in 
rented housing who feel that the welfare state not only works against them, but 
penalises them to boot.

They work...</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102434</link><pubDate>Sun, 23Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who will shell out for Britain's future? </title><description>A final domino has fallen. Shell, the last FTSE 100 company offering new 
recruits membership of its generous final salary pension scheme, has announced 
the offer is no more.</description><link>http://www.frankfield.com/latest-news/articles/news.aspx?p=102435</link><pubDate>Sun, 23Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
