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Stella Creasy MP Articles

What has changed?

How do the policy challenges of 1997 compare with the ones we face today, asks Stella Creasy Tony Blair did not send a single email in office. The 1997 manifesto pledged to get rid of outside toilets in schools, such was the condition of our public services. Back then...

A voice and a vote to the grassroots

Labour is at its best when it is part of a broad-based, active and inclusive social movement. Yet each of us who have joined has a story about what happened the first time we went to a meeting that would make anyone wonder why we bothered. Most involve drowning in...

Decent Jobs Week guest-edit

At twenty one you're on top of the scrapheap At sixteen you were top of the class All they taught you at school Was how to be a good worker The system has failed you, don't fail yourself In 1983 Billy Bragg predicted the future for young Britain with alarming...

Speech to Progress Rally 2014

Why do we do this to ourselves? I've been coming to conference to eat wilting sandwiches and drink warm wine for 19 years now. But the reason I’m here and the reason I am part of Labour has never changed. I do this job, I’m part of this movement, because I believe...