Articles - Bridget Phillipson

How Labour can win: Bridget Phillipson MP on childcare, Brexit and faith

On 12 April last year, Boris Johnson’s fixed penalty notice was dominating the news. Few noticed another, perhaps equally seismic political story in Bournemouth: a member of Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet was being booed by the unions. Speaking at the National Education Union’s annual conference, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Australian Labor is showing what progressives can achieve in power

Just as Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese changed his party, Keir Starmer has changed the Labour Party here. The pioneering postwar Australian prime minister Ben Chifley said in 1949 that the labour movement’s great objective was not to put an extra sixpence in somebody’s pocket, nor to make someone prime…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour’s childcare plan will be like the birth of the NHS

Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, believes the “scale and ambition” of Labour’s childcare reforms will compare with Aneurin Bevan’s creation of the National Health Service. In a bid to resolve one of the biggest problems facing families, and therefore the economy, the rising Labour star has a plan, as…

Bridget Phillipson MP: “Childcare has to be part of a country’s economic strategy”

The shadow education secretary on what the UK can learn from Estonia, snobbery at Oxford and whether she wants to be Labour leader. Bridget Phillipson was, as Labour frontbenchers often are these days, campaigning in the sort of marginal seat that her party needs to win in the next general…

Bridget Phillipson MP plans expansion of state nursery sector in England to ease pressure on parents

Proposals are part of party’s wider ambition to build system of high-quality, affordable childcare and to make issue an election pledge Councils in England will be encouraged to open more high-quality maintained nurseries as part of ambitious Labour plans to transform childcare and ease pressure on struggling parents. There are fewer than…

Bridget Phillipson MP: The Conservative Party has given up on governing Britain – it can’t even govern itself

Election Now: It’s time for a Labour government that will work with unions and business alike to build an economy that works for all of us, not some of us, writes Bridget Phillipson Four prime ministers in seven years. Four chancellors in four months. Four education secretaries in 365 days. These…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Labour promise of free breakfasts ‘first step on the road to rebuilding childcare’

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson to announce plan to fund breakfast clubs in every primary school Labour will rebuild a new childcare system to ease the pressure on parents from the “end of parental leave right through to the end of primary school”, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said, starting…

Bridget Phillipson MP: ‘Childcare will be completely reimagined if we win power’

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson pledges to ‘completely transform’ childcare to deliver landmark reforms to benefit millions of families Childcare in England would be “completely transformed” if Labour wins power to offer comprehensive support from the end of parental leave through all primary school years, Bridget Phillipson said on Thursday. In an interview with The…

Bridget Phillipson MP: This government owes A-level students a big apology after Covid

Fewer than one in five 16-19 year-olds have received any support from the Conservatives’ chaotic tutoring programme This week, students will receive exam results again for the first time since 2019. In a true sign that the world is back to “normal” there will be no stressing about algorithms, or which pieces…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Cost of living is wrecking lives and families

As under-pressure households faced a worse-than-expected hit in July with food prices pushing inflation to another 40-year high, Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Houghton & Sunderland South MP Bridget Phillipson writes for The Northern Echo warning the cost of living is rising at a pace not seen in…

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