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Excl: Thornberry vows to put arms export decisions under independent control
Labour leadership candidate Emily Thornberry has announced in a LabourList article today that she would remove decisions over arms exports from political control and transfer responsibility for them to an independent body. The Shadow Foreign Secretary has revealed that if elected to the top job as Jeremy Corbyn’s successor, she would introduce a ‘Robin Cook Act’ – named after the late MP and former Foreign Secretary who resigned over the Iraq war in 2003.
Life-long learning: how to tool up modern Britain
The government’s record leaves much to be desired by Nic Dakin / September 1, 2019 / Leave a comment The government talks the talk. Will it walk the walk? Photo: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire/PA Images Thanks to the new report from Labour’s Life-long Learning Commission, together with the Social Mobility Commission having made it clear we must up our game on further education, we are at long last taking life-long learning seriously again.
The case for a life-long learning guarantee
Give people—including the most disadvantaged—the tools to adapt by Robert Halfon / September 1, 2019 / Leave a comment Poor access to life-long learning is one of the great social injustices of our time. Around 9m adults in England have low literacy and/or numeracy skills. With the march of the robots, the consequences of the skills deficit are only set to deepen. A full 28 per cent of jobs taken by 16-24 year olds are at risk of automation by the 2030s.
We need to be more accessible than ever as politicians, Nic Dakin MP argues
In the second article of our new series of cross-party reflections on young people and politics, Nic Dakin MP argues that young people are more politically engaged than some people think.
Nic Dakin: With fake news, how do we know who to trust today?
During my superb visit to Frederick Gough School I was quizzed by the School Council. The discussion was wide and varied picking up the many issues of our day including possible Scottish devolution and the challenges of the UK finding its new place in the world outside the European Union. But the question that got me thinking was the one about fake news. How do we know which news sources to trust today?
Nic Dakin: How an MP raises issues and campaigns for change
An MP has many different ways to raise issues and campaign for things to change. And there are no shortage of people encouraging us to do this or that. Constituents, local businesses and other organisations head a list that includes professional lobbyists as well as amateur enthusiasts. One mechanism is the 10 minute rule bill – a slot of prime time in the House of Commons on Tuesdays and Wednesdays where an individual MP can speak for 10 minutes on a particular issue without interruption.
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