Frank Field

Frank Field

Frank Field has been Labour MP for Birkenhead since 1979. From 1997 to 1998 he was Minister for Welfare Reform

Articles by Frank Field

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Hurrah for Harriet

  • 20 August 2009
  • 6 comments

There is an alternative to drifting into horrendous defeat, but Labour must seize the moment. The party’s deputy leader showed how

The struggle for survival

  • 13 August 2009
  • 1 comment

Whitehall needs a new Securities Department that will deal with the growing threats beyond terrorism

How Labour can win

  • 17 April 2009
  • 4 comments

If the government continues as it is now my guess is that voters will machine gun us down as we come over the top of our political trenches once the election is called

Labour veteran slates 'open door' immigration

  • 18 October 2007
  • 5 comments

The economic benefit of immigration is miniscule compared to the cost argues Frank Field as he lays into Labour's 'open door' policy

The state we're in

  • 31 October 2005

Talk to the Hand: the utter bloody rudeness of everyday life Lynne Truss Profile Books, 214pp, £9.99 ISBN 1861979339

NS Essay 1 - People no longer have the confidence to follow their own consciences

  • 15 December 2003

Our big problem is not crime but yobbery and the loss of common decency. Police, schools and the welfare system can make the British respectable again

How to win over the pensioners

  • 25 September 2000

Frank Field offers the Chancellor a new idea for concentrating help on the elderly poor without means-testing their benefits

Don't ignore the core, Tony

  • 16 August 1999

Labour may not need the votes of the poor to get re-elected, but it is dangerous to abandon traditional principles, warns Frank Field

A hand-up or a put-down for the poor?

  • 27 November 1998

Frank Field fears that the welfare reform bill will take us deeper into a means-testing morass

Green heroes

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20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

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