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The latest news, analysis and opinion from the Fabian Society including highlights from the Fabian Review and web-exclusive commentary and insight.

Before diversity can flourish

11 July 2017

It is true enough that much of the electorate don’t recognise people like themselves in politics. They do not hear authentic voices that connect with their lived experience. Politicians talk incessantly about reflecting Britain better, but they remain blinkered to the...

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Labour's task

10 July 2017

At first sight, the two main parties’ votes are mirror images of each other. The Conservatives ‘won’ with older people – 58 per cent of 60-69 year olds and 69 per cent of 70+. They also won 55 per cent...

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Speech

FULL TEXT - Yvette Cooper MP speech

8 July 2017

This is the full text of the speech Yvette Cooper MP gave at our annual summer conference today. 

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Book review

Book review: For whose benefit?

6 July 2017

For Whose Benefit? The everyday realities of welfare reform, Ruth Patrick, Policy Press, 2017, £19.99 Since the general election, poverty has been hitting the headlines. The most recent critics of Conservative welfare cuts have included PM Gordon Brown who has warned:...

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What next for Brexit?

5 July 2017

There was a time not long ago when the British stand on Brexit, reflected in both the Labour and Conservative general election manifestos, seemed fairly straightforward. The UK would leave the single market, withdraw from the European Economic Area (EEA),...

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Labour's purpose

4 July 2017

So that was the election that was. The outlandish victory predicted for the Conservatives has ended up on the rocks of a hung parliament, with the Labour party believing it will only take the tide to rise once more for Jeremy...

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