While expectations were already low for this year’s autumn statement, the conventional wisdom was that the chancellor...
Peter Kyle MP Articles
Social care at a tipping point
Back in January, I dedicated my first Westminster Hall debate to the subject of the future of care homes in England....
Osborne fails his own tests – again
Today was George Osborne’s eighth budget and, like all that preceded it, the political rhetoric and sweeping...
The Productivity Plan – short on measurability
The business, innovation and skills select committee, which I sit on, has just published its report into George...
The fantasy world of Green policy meets reality
For a party that loathes motoring so much it is an irony how often they seem to suffer political car crashes. Today’s...
We should not try to to out-Green the Greens
For those whose approach to politics begins by pigeon-holing, I am usually shoved in a box marked ‘centre ground’. The...
Four weeks to go until Operation Flight
When the hashtag #WhereIsWeatherley started trending about my opponent, I knew there was all to play for in the...
An unprogressive coalition
If the most frustrating thing you hear on the doorstep is ‘they're all the same', a close second is...
Changing the game
Of the 270 minutes of debate some of us enjoyed, or perhaps endured, over the last three weeks, precious few produced...
The Chilcot Inquiry
I was at university on the 11 September 2001, in an open plan office with other postgraduate students. It's not a day...
Time for clarity
In the last edition of the Progress magazine I wrote about the new policy initiative by Andy Burnham to favour one set...
Preferring excellence
By any measurable standard it has been a good 12 years for the charitable, voluntary and social enterprise sectors, or...