The lovely phrase “spray on evidence” was coined in the late 1990s in frustration at the attitude towards evidence shown by many in the Labour government. Though officially the government was determinedly set on a course of evidence-based policy, many of those involved in policy making felt that evidence was being applied as a bit

Last August, the then Labour government commissioned a KPMG report into the future of NHS Direct (along with some other related NHS services). The report has been submitted to the current government, though not published. So if Labour MPs and members were saying how the government must publish the KPMG report right away to see

from UNISON’s magazine  Like you, I’m proud of Labour’s legacy – the minimum wage, Sure Start children’s centres, new hospitals, civil partnerships and devolution. But I’m aware of the disappointments too. At times the Labour government seemed to lose touch with the people we represent and almost wage war on public servants. That was wrong and we

More than £350 million of taxpayers' money was spent by the Labour government on health campaigns urging the public to drink and eat less, exercise more and practice safe sex, it can be revealed today.

Only in the UK, where class prejudice cuts so deep, would the MSM portray as a disaster an increase in the numbers of young’s people who are eligible to attend university. In the very week A level results were announced, the UK media has been full of stories claiming A levels have degenerated to such an extent they are all but worthless, and questioned whether the last Labour Government'...

Labour Councillors in the Priory Heath area of Ipswich are up in arms after plans to upgrade the play area at Murray Road recreation ground fell victim to Government cuts. A grant for £50,000 to transform the play area has been withheld after the Playbuilder programme was scrapped. The £235m Playbuilder scheme was launched two years ago by the Labour government. It was set up to develo...

After 13 years of a Labour Government Carwyn Jones and other senior Labour AM’s has finally conceded that London has under funded Wales to the tune of at least £300 million. It could safeguard 9,000 public sector jobs in Wales when the Con/Dem axe falls next year.I hope that the Labour wing of the “No Campaign” like Cllr Nigel Dix will agree with his fellow senior Labour me...

Books about the New Labour government feature highly in MPs' summer reading lists ahead of the publication of former prime minister Tony Blair's hotly-anticipated memo

Both Conservative and Liberal Democrats made plenty of justified political hay out of helicopter problems faced by our armed forces back under the Labour government. Now it looks as if both parties will be having to perform a sensitive political change of gear as the Ministry of Defence turns to making helicopter cuts. Apart from

The coalition risks making the same mistake as the Labour government, which failed to act quickly enough to defend industry, said Pat McFadden, shadow business secretary