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Name : Dame Amelia Lockhart Avatar : Amy Klobuchar Age : 64 (17/08/1951) Gender : Female Ethnicity : White Marital Status : Married Sexual Orientation : Heterosexual Party : Labour Political Outlook : Blairite; Progress; pro-public sector reform; liberal interventionist Constituency : Bishop Auckla...

A Good Move Back to the Future January 2021 The brilliance of Conservatism is the willingness to recognise that people in the past got things right, and that modern society often makes mistakes. One of the biggest mistakes in the past 6 decades was the dramatic reduction in grammar schools, with th...

Grammar Disaster Impending January 2021 Much of the discussion about the Government’s White Paper, Making Education Work, has focused on grammar schools and the return of a tripartite education system. This is, perhaps, understandable. While the changes to universities must be scrutinised, the evid...

Shared parental leave uptake ‘low’ five years on, research finds November 2020 Only 2 per cent of eligible couples made use of shared parental leave last year, meaning that uptake was still “exceptionally low” according to Maternity Action based on HMRC figures. Research revealed that only 13,100 c...

Back Fuel Freeze Chancellor, says MPs More than twenty Tory MPs have called on Sir James McCrimmon to rule out raising fuel tax in his Budget. The call comes following a parliamentary question time where Sir James, also Secretary of State for Transport, refused to commit to freezing fuel duty for a...

Unpredictable Labour Race April 2019 History will be made when Labour announces its next Leader of the Labour Party. The first permanent female Leader will be elected in the party’s 119 year existence. Either Hilda Harrington, MP for Southampton Test, or Emily Greenwood, the MP for Workington, will...

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A Divided Party April 2019 Following a leadership resignation in perhaps the bitterest of circumstances, the different elements and wings of the party are preparing for what could be a nasty fight to be Leader of the Opposition and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. The party is divided at every le...