I was asked to speak at the conference of the New Labour evangelists Progress and found myself getting furious about the arrest of Damian Green I had the pleasure of speaking at the final plenary session of the Progress conference yesterday. The subject of the discussion was “The End of Ideology: What’s the Left For?” and it was a lively debate. The other panellists were Charles Clarke, Hazel B...

CHARLES Clarke, the Blairite former home secretary, moved to bury the hatchet with Gordon Brown yesterday,

Charles Clarke has moved to bury the hatchet with Gordon Brown, acknowledging the Prime Minister had done "really well" over the past two months.

1) Cut tax for those who will actually spending. 2) Cut tax in a targeted fashion that will encourage those who earn little, rather than those who earn more, to put in the hours, or get a job. 3) Cut tax levied on transactions in a time of economic recession, low confidence, and low consumer spending. I've been wanting this for years. Ken Livingstone supports it, and so does Charles Clarke. I...

Alistair Darling will make a high-risk bid to lead Britain out of recession tomorrow, when he is expected to cut VAT and entice the British people to go on a pre-Christmas spending spree. The move by the Chancellor and Gordon Brown won the support last night of Charles Clarke, one of the Prime Minister's most high-profile critics, a sign that the economic crisis is at last uniting Labour and ...

Charles Clarke has moved to bury the hatchet with Gordon Brown acknowledging the Prime Minister had done "really well" over the past two months.

Alistair Darling will make a high-risk bid to lead Britain out of recession tomorrow when he is expected to cut VAT and entice the British people to go on a pre-Christmas spending spree. The move by the Chancellor and Gordon Brown won the support last night of Charles Clarke, one of the Prime Minister's most high-profile critics, a sign that Labour was pulling together after years of in-fight...

SALTIS (www.saltis.org) welcomes the conclusion of BESA's Policy Commission, chaired by Charles Clarke, that better standards for software interoperability are essential if we are to maximise the benefits of ICT in education.

Public confidence in the national crime statistics has never been high. Opinion polls repeatedly tell us that the public think crime has been rising remorselessly despite the fact that on the best measure that we have available - the British Crime Survey - it has fallen by more than a third since 1995. Indeed when Charles Clarke was home secretary he thought this lack of public trust had got so ba...

Computer Weekly picked up some comments at the Labour conferenceFormer home secretary Charles Clarke said Labour has experienced “all kinds of problems” since coming into power in 1997. “The potential of IT, whether it is individual records in the NHS or ID cards, is enormous understanding it and how to procure it is very difficult,” he said. “I would say, to the cred...