If you haven’t seen it yet, my latest article on Comment is Free is now up: There is still more work to be done. I still think we need to do more about social justice and child poverty; improving education and tax cuts on people with low incomes is certainly necessary but not sufficient. But if

Last month 10,000 people came to the End Child Poverty rally in Trafalgar square to urge the government to keep the promise to halve child poverty by 2010; the key measure we were demanding was an extra £3 billion in tax credits and benefits for children. Did today’s pre-budget report move us...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg rules out profit as a motive for running England's new free schools as more than half open their gates.

Nick Clegg fights against Government’s shameful abandonment of Gurkhas At Prime Minister's Questions this week Nick Clegg outshone his political opponents and exposed the moral vacancy of the Prime Minister and his Labour Government. Nick accused the Prime Minister of giving evasive answers on the issue of the Gurkhas because he knows that what he and his government are doing is wrong. ...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is interviewed today in the Independent on Sunday, with the report inevitably featuring tuition fees: He says he is still determined to tackle social disadvantage and educational underperformance, and says that a £150m national scholarship scheme will give a year’s free tuition to 18,000 students on free school meals. Universities

No surprises that the financial crisis again dominated the slanging-match exchanges at Prime Minister’s Questions this week. Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg stuck to his week-in-week-out brief – asking punchy questions about the ‘bread and butter’ issues affecting the lives of everyday folk – this time focusing on fuel poverty, and the estimates that up

Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, will attempt to wrestle some of the limelight away from his Conservative Coalition partners by claiming the Liberal Democrats are "joint architects of the Government's education policy".

Bad parenting does more to hold back poor children than poverty, the Deputy Prime Minister said today.

Jude Robinson has welcomed the extension of free school meals for low income families announced in the Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report today. Jude said: "This will be particularly effective at tackling child poverty in Cornwall where wages are not yet in line with other areas. This is a measure that the Labour Party in Cornwall has lobbied government for and is in our local manifesto. "Protect...

Nick Clegg criticises Prime Minister for not backing up job announcements with the necessary targeted investment In the last Prime Minister’s Questions before the Budget announcement Nick urged the Prime Minister to target investment more effectively to create new jobs for today's unemployed. At a time when unemployment in the UK has exceeded 2 million, the Prime Minister has ...