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Magic Circle law firms pledge to open doors to 'ordinary' people

12.09.11
London's top law firms have pledged to tackle their exclusive 'old school tie' image by earmarking hundreds of work experience places for state school pupils from poorer families... more

Health reforms are 'biggest car crash' in NHS history

16.06.11
The Coalition's watered-down health reforms have been branded the 'biggest car crash' in NHS history by a key government adviser... more

Alan Milburn slams NHS reform 'car crash'

16.06.11
The former health secretary has branded the coalition's watered down NHS reforms the "biggest car crash" in the service's history... more

Is Cameron about to lose policy guru who peddles radical ideas?

16.06.11
David Cameron is in danger of losing one of his closest and most senior allies at No10 amid Tory jitters that the Coalition is retreating from truly radical policies... more

Why we are fast losing our social mobility

11.02.11
Politicians who used to lambast Labour's "social engineering" have been at it themselves this week over university access... more

Nick Clegg sets out plans to close gap between rich and poor

18.08.10
Government's plans for closing the gap between rich and poor set out by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg... more

Nick Clegg’s deputy divides Coalition with call for Lib-Dem policy veto

18.08.10
Fresh tensions surface between the Lib-Dems and the Conservatives, overshadowing the coalition notching up its first 100 days in power... more

Alan Milburn angers Labour by joining Coalition

16.08.10
Former Labour cabinet minister Alan Milburn is to make a surprise return to front-line politics... more

Now Lib-Con social mobility replaces socialist equality

16.08.10
While the coalition signals its commitment to improved life chances, Labour is retrenching into egalitarianism ... more

Nick Clegg stirs up Coalition row over Trident on his first day in charge

16.08.10
Nick Clegg tears open Coalition tensions over the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent on his first day as stand-in for Prime Minister David Cameron... more

Ed or David Miliband, this lurch to the Left is a loser for Labour

26.07.10
In their eagerness to please their party, the Miliband brothers risk making Labour unelectable in opposition... more

John Hutton - experienced and unbiased or turncoat collaborator?

23.06.10
Business profile: Labour’s John Hutton has been asked by George Osborne to tackle the public-sector pensions bill... more

What lay behind Gordon Brown's martyrdom mission

11.05.10
Gordon Brown always confused academic ability with a duty to govern and then, in turn, confused this duty with entitlement. Matthew d’Ancona examines what lay behind the Prime Minister’s sudden resignation... more

No 10 hits back at claims Brown told Blair: You’ve ruined my life

25.02.10
Downing Street denounces as 'prejudiced' new claims of Gordon Brown having private tantrums, including that he was reduced to shouting at Tony Blair: 'You’ve ruined my life'... more

James Purnell quits as MP to join exodus of the big beasts

19.02.10
Gordon Brown’s election build-up is rocked as James Purnell becomes the latest Labour MP to quit the Commons... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wanted: a cunning plan to save Gordon

21.05.08
As tomorrow's by-election in Crewe threatens another Labour defeat, the PM's supporters are divided on how he should fight back ... more


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