Entries Tagged as ‘End Child Poverty’

November 9, 2006

Let’s make history

We launched our campaign to Make Child Povery history at the Freshers’ Squash back in October. Despite the sterling work of several charities and the Labour government, nearly 3.5m British children still live in poverty. If you’d like to help us change that depressing statistic, click here for more information.

September 6, 2006

A helping hand

It’s a real shame that the supposed debate on Tony Blair’s future (to my mind it seems more like a betrayal by the ungrateful) has moved discussion away from what was an interesting speech on social exclusion by the PM yesterday.
Blair has always been concerned about how government should help those who have the worst [...]

August 9, 2006

Winning the battle of ideas

Difficult as it is to avoid the depressing developments in the Middle East and their impact upon the national party’s polling ratings, a few recent developments suggest that Labour supporters, activists and politicians are beginning to soberly chart a path towards a fourth term.
Last week, I was lucky enough to hear Douglas Alexander, an underrated [...]