News & Insight

The recipe for a popular green campaign

15 October 2013

I was pleased to be invited to the well-attended Fabian roundtable held at the Labour Party conference on land, community and a popular environmentalism. There’s clearly much more to be said on such an important and wide-ranging topic than could...

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Welcome to... The Foreign and Commonwealth Office

14 October 2013

Last week, Nissan's chief operating officer, Toshiyuki Shiga, warned Britain against leaving the European Union. He claimed that our ongoing membership is 'very important' for foreign investors and highlighted the dramatic consequence of having to set up our own standards...

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It’s the long-term trends, stupid: How Labour could still win votes

14 October 2013

Many people in the real world would probably agree that the party conference season is a bit of a weird time of year, but this is especially true if you are a pollster. When you look at voting intention polls...

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Welcome to... The Department for Transport

14 October 2013

In Maria Eagle’s hands, transport has become a battleground policy area in the run-up to 2015. As her successor Mary Creagh takes over as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, London-based civil servants and MPs opening postbags in the...

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Why plain packaging can't go up in smoke

11 October 2013

In July this year, the government dismayed medical professionals and the wider public health community by refusing to bring in legislation to require the standardised packaging of cigarettes and tobacco products. In a written statement sneaked out on the last...

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Five things we learned this week

11 October 2013

Westminster was all ahoo as all the three main political parties shuffled their ministerial pack. Who's up? Who's down? Who's out? And what did we learn? In the first of a new weekly series, Richard Speight looks back at the 5...

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