How Labour changed its mind on the two-child benefit cap
It was an emotional moment for so many people in the Labour movement
ByGordon Brown
The two-child benefit cap was a scar on the country’s soul
By abolishing the cap, Rachel Reeves will lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty
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Barry Gardiner, the Extirpator
The veteran Labour MP has galvanised his colleagues by publicly criticising No 10
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Why is Labour so cheery?
Every faction believes that it could own the future
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PMQs review: Badenoch hammers Starmer on Mandelson
Keir Starmer struggled to deflect questions about his ambassador’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
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The truth about the “hostile takeover” of the Green Party
The left has no place in Labour any more.
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Ian Byrne: “Hunger is a political choice”
The Labour MP on Fans Supporting Foodbanks, Hillsborough and tackling inequality.
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A cold childhood
My unheated home wasn’t a temporary discomfort. The chill got into my bones.
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Alison McGovern: “Child poverty isn’t inevitable”
The Minister for Employment on why only a Labour government can fix this crisis.
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When David Tennant met Gordon Brown
“Drama is always political – it’s about human beings and how we interact with the world.”
What’s the point of a Labour government that allows child poverty?
Keir Starmer says in private that lifting the two-child cap is his personal priority.
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Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
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Gordon Brown: the moral economist
In a time of brutal inequality, can the former prime minister still imagine a better world?
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The BBC finds itself not guilty
Also this week: Gordon Brown takes on Murdoch, and The Sun’s grasp of voting patterns.
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The left must resist the seductions of austerity
Britain and Germany are walking into the same fiscal doom loop.
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There must be all-party support for tackling the poverty crisis
The poor cannot wait; we need emergency action this winter.
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From Gordon Brown to Natalie Haynes: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Family Meal by Bryan Washington and Pure Wit by Francesca Peacock.
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Nadine Dorries’ “Plot” to hijack the Tory party conference
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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A Tony Blair rock opera? Get me out of here!
My friend turned to me at one stage and whispered “help” with the desperation of someone seeking rescue from the…
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Succession’s sly allusion to New Labour’s very own succession
In the latest episode, Shiv Roy appears to echo Gordon Brown’s cry of betrayal at Tony Blair.
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