Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said in response to comments from the government’s child poverty adviser Alan Milburn that the Government should ‘come clean’ and admit that it ‘will not meet its child poverty target’:

It’s been said that Margaret Thatcher’s governments did two things for poverty. First they increased it. Then they pretended it did not exist. As Alan Milburn prepares to makes his first speech as the Independent Reviewer on Social Mobility and Child Poverty on Tuesday, his task will be to help the Coalition avoid a similar,

Alan Milburn is wrong – private hospitals have done little for the NHS We don’t actually care whether private hospitals are good for the NHS. For the NHS is just a structure, one that exists to perform a task. It’s the task, how well it is performed, that is the question we should be talking

Alan Milburn's article for the Telegraph this morning is a rhetorical blitzkreig against the coalition and their NHS reforms. From its opening shot that "The Government health reforms are the biggest car crash in NHS history," to its closing call for Labour to "restake its claim to be the party of progressive, radical reform," it is searing stuff. And no-one is spared, lea...

Telegraph View: The NHS fiasco means no one will make changes to this monolith for years to come.

Exclusive: Alan Milburn says that the changes announced this week in the wake of demands from the Liberal Democrats and opposition from the health establishment represent a "disaster."

Former Labour Health Secretary Alan Milburn calls the coalition's amended changes to the NHS in England the "biggest car crash" in the service's history.

In pursuit of short-term political gain, the Coalition has undone years of good work, writes Alan Milburn.

The 'defection' of the ex-Labour Minister to the Coalition government is good news for all, says John McTernan.

Lord Prescott and Simon Hughes discuss former Cabinet minister Alan Milburn's decision to accept a role as social mobility tsar to the coalition government.