Sam Stopp Articles

During his ill-starred attempt to become Labour leader in 2010, David Miliband fired several warning shots to Labour’s centre-left about the danger it was in. ‘Future’, he said somewhat whimsically, ‘is the most important word in politics. We must convince our fellow...

The clamour to end homelessness is growing. Yesterday the Guardian published an open letter from the Labour Campaign to End Homelessness calling on the Labour party to commit to ending homelessness. Meanwhile, in Westminster, the communities and local government...

Sam Stopp presents his alternative Queen's speech – what Labour could and should be doing now were it in power. A bill to end homelessness Under the last Labour government, homelessness fell substantially. In 2015, government statistics showed that 3,569 people slept...

When Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader last year, he declared emphatically: ‘Poverty isn’t inevitable.’ He was right – it isn’t. And neither is the Dickensian blight of rapidly rising homelessness – the darkest stain left by this Tory government on the fabric of...