Byelection looms as MP set to become Greater Manchester deputy mayor
Appointment of Labour’s Kate Green would trigger byelection in Stretford and Urmston
July 2021
Funding for deprived schools in England has shifted to wealthy areas, study finds
Poorer students suffering as the government’s national funding formula results in increased payments to schools in affluent areas
June 2021
Labour to force vote on ‘totally insufficient’ school catch-up plan
Opposition plan comes amid Tory MPs demanding urgent rethink of lost learning scheme
April 2021
Work pressure in Covid lockdown was shattering, say teachers
Boris Johnson's latest 'build back better' pledge won't get Britain back to work
Polly Toynbee
February 2021
Former Tory MP in row over appointment as head of Office for Students
Covid could cost children £350bn in earnings due to lost learning, says IFS
December 2020
School leaders and councils demand clarity on primary closures
Haringey advises its schools to close despite not being in government’s ‘contingency framework’ areas
September 2020
Delay university term until on-campus testing ready, says Labour
Letter to education secretary comes as thousands of students confined to halls after outbreak
August 2020
Delay A-level and GCSE exams to give pupils more time, says Labour
Shadow education secretary Kate Green says exams should be pushed back to June 2021
July 2020
Labour decries 'wasted summer' of inadequate support for pupils in England
Keir Starmer accuses PM of placing parents in 'impossible position'
September 2016
Whoever he is, Labour’s next leader must set right the party’s problem with women
Rachel Holmes
Embroiled in a macho civil war, Labour has no women in leading roles. Its next leader will be a man – but here’s how his feminist shadow cabinet should look
June 2016
Jeremy Corbyn turns to grassroots after bruising day ends with Labour in turmoil
Call for party unity falls flat as backbenchers join attacks on leader, with shouting, tears and rival sides briefing against each other
May 2016
The politics sketch
Project Fear: no longer the sole preserve of Tory patriarchy?
John Crace
Harman and Eagle were right to say female voices needed to be in the EU debate – until Seema Malhotra parroted Osborne’s message
April 2014
At last, Labour has a plan for getting disabled people into employment
Sue Marsh
Sue Marsh: Rachel Reeves and Kate Green are moving Labour away from defining the problem as one of 'shirkers' who can work but don't
February 2012
Word of Mouth blog
No more Top Totty for the strangers in parliament
Top Totty banned from parliament bar
August 2011
Worst beer pumpclips - in pictures
'Top Totty' beer has been taken off sale in the House of Commons due to its offensive pumpclip. Unfortunately there's plenty more where that came from
July 2007
Credit where it's due
David Blunkett and Kate Green have come up with a plan to help people in poverty avoid the need to use loan sharks.
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