Articles - Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson MP: The fortress mentality on universal credit needs to stop

Universal Credit in its current form is an unmitigated catastrophe, long in the making and now vast in its scale, the Ben Hur of public policy failure. Today’s report by the Public Accounts Committee, which found a culture of denial at the DWP and a department adrift from the real-world…

Bridget Phillipson MP: ‘Holiday hunger’ and ‘period poverty’ campaigns risk forgetting what poverty really means

Fridays, as for most MPs, are surgery days. And with every surgery comes more avoidable misery inflicted by the Conservatives. Each week I meet people who are, through no fault of their own, not among the Prime Minister’s “just about managing” but instead among the “not really managing at all”,…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Machine politics is underrated – and essential to winning power and changing policy

Bridget Phillipson MP: Shifting the Debate on Brexit

Bridget Phillipson MP: Ministers are showing wilful heartlessness over poverty

Bridget Phillipson MP: The 2017 election was far from a triumph – Labour must do a lot more to win

Myths can fix themselves to events with remarkable rapidity. Established wisdom already has it that the general election was a triumph for Labour, that those who previously doubted Jeremy Corbyn’s suitability to be leader did so solely or even principally on grounds of his electability, and that even those who…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Education Matters

Bridget Phillipson MP: Don’t just listen to people’s concerns about immigration. Think.

A few weeks back the Observer published an article by Jason Langrish, a member of the Canadian team that negotiated the recent CETA trade deal between the EU and Canada. He was unsparing about the utter mess of the government’s approach to Brexit and the catastrophe that it risks. The line I…

Bridget Phillipson MP: The conditions for Labour’s previous successes are falling apart. Where do we go from here?

This summer saw our Labour Party engaged in another lengthy period of introspection, culminating in the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader thanks in large part to the transformation of our membership base since last spring. For those who haven’t read it, Ian Warren’s piece in Newsweek on why Owen Smith’s campaign was…

Bridget Phillipson MP: Route-masters: the re-regulation of bus services

North East Combined Authority’s re-regulation of local bus services offers a better deal for passengers and taxpayers and could have significant implications for the future of public services. On 21 October 2014 the North East Combined Authority (NECA), representing the seven local authorities in the North East, unanimously resolved…

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