My Chatham House speech: Brexit can and should be stopped
We are in a deep Brexit crisis and we need, now at this moment, a plan both to get out of it and to get beyond it with confident national purpose and mission. I want to set out a plan with three points. First, the goal can and must be to stop Brexit entirely. Brexit is a cliff not a gradient. The category mistake we are in danger of making is to believe that some Brexits are better than others when the fundamental problem is Brexit itself. Being on the edge of a cliff, the n
10 for 10: The Social Housing Bill
It is deeply wrong that parliament is on holiday for 10 weeks at a time of national crisis and peril, as I argue here. So what should the government be bringing to parliament instead of a 10-week holiday? I will be publishing detailed proposals for 10 pieces of legislation that would answer the needs of the millions who are left out and left behind in today’s Britain. Number six in this series is a bill to build the social housing we desperately need. This first appeared as a
10 for 10: The Youth Emancipation Bill
It is deeply wrong that parliament is on holiday for 10 weeks at a time of national crisis and peril, as I argue here. So what should the government be bringing to parliament instead of a 10-week holiday? I will be publishing detailed proposals for 10 pieces of legislation that would answer the needs of the millions who are left out and left behind in today’s Britain. Number five in this series is a bill to give disenfranchised young people the vote. There is no more importan