What would you do for a salary of 66k? For most young people it’s a salary they can only dream about. Six jobs promising this salary have just been advertised on the Labour party website. The six posts are for executive directors covering every facet of the party, an attempt at a complete revolution in [...]
In a recent interview with Channel 4 News, Ed Miliband refused to endorse the public sector strike action which is due to take place on 30 November, but he also refused to condemn it. The Labour Party still receives much of its funding from the trade union movement, and Miliband was only able to become [...]
It has today been announced that the Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust in Cambridgeshire is to be taken over by the Circle Healthcare Corporation, a private for-profit company listed on the stock market, as part of a £1bn 10 year contract. Circle Trust will become the first ever non-state provider to deliver a full range of [...]
Catch21 went to meet Kate Green MP for Stretford & Urmston to ask her “Do you think the vote should be given to people at 16?” Kate is a great believer in giving the vote to people at 16 but believes the only way decision makers will listen is to get 100K+ votes on an [...]
Today, in front of a crowded audience, David Miliband gave a talk to students from the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University. With subjects ranging from the future of international politics to the proposed EU referendum, Miliband invited questions from the crowded audience. Co-chaired by Professor Paul Blackledge (Leeds Metropolitan University) and Dr Jason Ralph [...]
In her Conservative Conference Speech earlier today Theresa May entered a world of controversy as she claimed that the Human Rights Act should be abolished, hailed the introduction of an English language test for immigrants and incorrectly claimed that a Cat prevented an illegal immigrant from being deported in a speech that aimed to be [...]
Labour’s strategy at this year’s conference appeared to be based on the belief that they are walking a tightrope between two groups of voters with conflicting views. Ed Miliband put some left-leaning rhetoric (such as his attack on ‘predatory’ corporate behaviour) into his conference speech in order to please Labour’s working class base, but there [...]
There were expectations that Blue Labour would wield considerable influence over this year’s Labour conference, but this does not appear to have been the case so far. It is difficult to discern any of its influence in Ed Balls’ five point plan for the economy. In contrast to Blue Labour’s emphasis on localism, Balls’ points [...]
During his hour long speech at the Labour Party Conference in “Labour Liverpool” Ed Miliband today praises, among other points, the need for a “new bargain” within society, challenges those on benefits who do not seek work and condemns the Tories for instilling the wrong values on the country as he makes his strongest speech [...]
The AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) exam board will today announce a controversial new scheme in which Universities will have the ability to discriminate against pupils who have attended prestigious private schools. The new plans would see all A-Level student ranked according to what schools they attended, with students who come from disadvantaged areas and [...]
Students at the University of Hull getting off their backsides and getting people into politics
Jon Snow
Channel 4 News
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