Kate Godfrey Articles

England is not Labour’s country, it is the country where we are lost. Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest book, The Buried Giant, is about England. In it, the countryside is covered with a dense fog of forgetting, a fog that confuses and distresses the characters, but, as they...

By the time you read this the leadership election will be over. On a grey cold day in September, as the calendar ticks to 13, Jeremy Corbyn slipped through the door of Victory Mansions. And yet, this is not a piece about Corbyn. This is a piece about how opposition...

When the Conservatives talk about a ‘jobs miracle’, they are talking about the self-employed. Since 2008 three-quarters of jobs created have been by the 4.6 million people who now work for themselves. Self-employment is at record levels. And new employment really is...

In a week where big topics dominated the agenda – tax transparency, the Care Quality Commission and the rights of the families of servicemen and women killed in combat to sue for negligence, PMQs this week had the potential to be an embarrassment of riches, as well as...