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It seems likely that the Labour Party is shifting its position and will adopt the budgets of the coalition.  As a result there has been a fl...

At the end of April, I chaired the Public Services Show at the Business Design Centre, and found myself introducing the government's new...

It is always a little nerve-wracking when someone whose writing, and whose point of view, you admire enormously takes it upon themselves to ...

The really appears to be a blindness among frontline politicians about the banks, even many of the Lib Dem ones - though Vince Cable appears...

While I was doing the government's review on Barriers to Choice last year, the most common complaint at round tables was about getting ...

One of the most inspiring visits I made for the government's Barriers to Choice Review last year was to Middlesborough, to meet people ...

I listened to Bea Campbell and Laurie Penny on the Today programme with a sense of nostalgia. Of course, I felt, we all used to be like th...