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Universities told they must give students a better deal as fees rise

03.11.09

Universities will face pressure to take more working class students as ministers prepare the ground for increasing tuition fees... more

Class war is back in a new TV drama

15.09.09

Sex, drugs and Oxbridge toffs feature in the first TV drama written by a Standard critic Kieron Quirke. After a decade of Labour rule, he says, we need to keep an eye on the rising elite... more

Schools are the key to real social mobility

21.07.09

The report by the former health secretary, Alan Milburn, into social mobility which is published today contains a bold bid for mass appeal: its claim that the middle classes are being excluded from the professions... more

Jobs advice for nine-year-olds to help boost social mobility

21.07.09

Pupils as young as nine would get career advice under radical plans to stop middle and working class children missing out on life opportunities... more

McBride admits Brown and Blairite spin battle

20.07.09

Former No10 aide Damian McBride admitted he defended Gordon Brown by briefing against his critics... more

Pound drops as plotters tell ministers: Finish Brown off

04.06.09

Gordon Brown is tonight bunkered down at No.10 while Labour plotters beg the Cabinet to oust him... more

Blairites demand pledge on reforms as price of halting a challenge

07.05.09

Gordon Brown is under pressure to make major concessions to former allies of Tony Blair as the price of avoiding a bloody leadership battle... more

Labour’s rising star Alan Johnson makes his move for leadership

07.05.09

The first signs emerged of a leadership bandwagon gaining momentum for Health Secretary Alan Johnson... more

Baby Labour

22.04.09

Georgia Gould isn’t the only child of a Labour dynasty making her mark in politics. Emily Hill reveals the other holders of famous names following the family tradition... more

Brown is besieged by Labour big guns

14.04.09

The Downing Street dirty tricks row has deepened into a full-scale attack on Gordon Brown's leadership ... more

Globetrotting Gordon heads off to save the world (again)

24.03.09

Gordon Brown kicked off a globetrotting tour ahead of the G20 summit amid a stark warning from his own party that he risks ignoring the concerns of voters at home... more

Cash for best schools to take poor pupils

05.02.09

Top state schools will get extra cash to teach more working-class children in a scheme which has received enthusiastic backing from the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats... more

Stop kidding yourself, Harriet: there’s only one road to social mobility

14.01.09

The Government wants, rightly, to broaden opportunities. But imposing equality by law is not the way to do it – the answer lies, again, in our schools... more

Where I live, social mobility is a dead duck

13.01.09

If Labour is serious about improving social mobility in the professions, I will take its new equality champion, Alan Milburn, up the road from my Islington home to Canonbury Primary School to show him how bad London has got.... more

Poor still at disadvantage, says Milburn

12.01.09

Gordon Brown's new czar on social mobility has admitted that the Government had not done enough to help poor children... more

Mr Brown's new message on jobs

12.01.09

If summiteering were the key to reversing the downturn, Gordon Brown would have the recession well in hand... more

Health

08.10.08

It’s an issue that can cloud the cheering fact that London is home to some of the most brilliant health care specialists in the world, leaders in their fields. ... more

Politics' favourite euphemism

24.09.08

Ruth Kelly is the latest in a line of ministers who quit to spend "more time with the family" - a euphemism for frustration since Norman Fowler left the Thatcher Cabinet in 1990... more

Poll predicts wipe-out for Labour in South-East

22.09.08

Labour is facing wipe-out in the South-East at the next general election, according to a new poll... more

Battering for Brown as Cameron polls 52%

18.09.08

Labour panic increased as a landmark poll gave David Cameron a massive 52 per cent rating... more

There's more wrong with New Labour than it thinks

03.09.08

The PM's long-awaited economic relief package cannot disguise the party's difficulties and divisions - which can be summed up in 10 key points... more

What not to do - if you really want to win

20.08.08

So it's Trinny and Susannah R.I.P. they no longer enchant when it comes to correcting the nation's trouser-buying techniques and ensuring maximum bosom uplift... more

Milburn: I'd be mad to take a job from Gordon

06.08.08

Alan Milburn would refuse a Cabinet job if it is offered by Gordon Brown, the Evening Standard has learned... more

Cabinet goes on the road to show it's 'listening to Britain'

04.08.08

Gordon Brown launched the first phase of his fightback with plans for the Cabinet to hold meetings outside London... more

Conference show of strength by Miliband allies

04.08.08

Allies of David Miliband are to make a show of strength at Labour's conference next month when Gordon Brown's leadership will be under intense pressure... more

Old hands and young Turks: the contenders for PM's crown

28.07.08

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Comment: Even ministers whisper that the game is up

25.07.08

Gordon Brown will not fall on his sword - that was the Prime Minister's clear message as he gazed past the wreckage of Glasgow East to his favourite terrain, the long term... more