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Articles by David Pinto-Duschinsky
'Welfare reform is not a betrayal of Labour values
The creation of the modern welfare state by the 1945 Labour government remains one of the party’s proudest legacies. A system to support society’s most vulnerable is an enduring symbol of fairness, collective responsibility, and the belief that no one should be left behind. In the aftermath of war, Labour didn’t just built institutions like the NHS and the welfare system.
Holding Our Nerve: How Labour Are Settling Back Into Number 10
Rocky. Bumpy. A period of adjustment. Whichever your euphemism of choice, the months since Labour’s landslide have been quite the rollercoaster. There are several factors at play. One is the inexperience of incoming ministers. For every Whitehall veteran such as John Healey, Pat McFadden, or Yvette Cooper, there are a hundred ministers who were not even MPs the last time there was a Labour government.
After COP29, Can the UK Be a Global Climate Leader?
Something unusual happened to British people in Baku in November 2024 when asked where they were from. After years of being a little embarrassed by their country, for once, attendees of COP29 from the United Kingdom could feel some pride in answering that question. The UK that had just raised the bar for climate ambition by being the first to release an updated NDC (Nationally Determined Contribution – or, emissions target), to reduce emissions by an ambitious 81% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.
Labour's Civil Society Covenant Must Learn From the Failures of the Big Society
The Government recently began work to co-create a new Civil Society Covenant, aiming to reset the relationship between government and charities. This has the potential to reshape how charities work with Government to achieve their five Missions. The last reset like this was David Cameron’s Big Society. Big Society promised to empower local places and encourage people to take an active role in their communities.
Tackling Economic Inactivity is a Moral Obligation and an Economic Imperative Too.
The last Conservative government didn’t just increase levels of disadvantage. They changed its nature. The number of children living in material deprivation rose sharply. So too did the impact of high housing costs on poor families. But perhaps the biggest change was in the number of people who completely dropped out of the labour market, becoming ‘economically inactive’ in the jargon. On the Conservatives’ watch and because of their failures, Britain is suffering a hidden epidemic of worklessness.
David Pinto-Duschinsky, Author at Progressive Britain
The last Conservative government didn’t just increase levels of disadvantage. They changed its nature. The number of children living in material deprivation rose sharply. So too did the impact of high housing costs on poor families. But perhaps the biggest change was in the number of people who completely dropped
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