Caroline Lucas

Green Party Member of Parliament

By failing to vote against this Bill, Labour is effectively supporting the Government and indicating that it, like David Cameron's administration, sees no problem in bringing in emergency legislation to overturn a court's findings when it goes against them.

Liam Byrne

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

The chaos at DWP knows no bounds. They've given us a Work Programme worse than doing nothing. Universal Credit is descending into universal chaos. And now the department has bodged its regulations so badly that a Court of Appeal judgement has struck down its general power to issue sanctions of any kind shape or form. Incredible.

Dave Clements

Reflections on a big society that keeps getting smaller

As we get ever more accustomed to austerity, with the granny-taxing budget of last week only the latest attack on living standards, it is perhaps worth revisiting the welfare discussion anew.

Darrell Goodliffe

Freelance writer, political commentator

Liam Byrne obviously hasn't let the recently departed festive season slow him down.

Liam Byrne

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Over a decade ago, another politician promised voters he would run as a compassionate Conservative. George W. Bush then proceeded with tax cuts that profited the better off, ran up unemployment and presided over a record increase in the number of states handing out food parcels. Now the mask has slipped from David Cameron and George Osborne. They will never look the same to us again.

Liam Byrne

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

We cannot afford a million-strong army of young unemployed. As a country, we can choose to avoid the costly errors of the past. This is not a price worth paying.

Jonathan Walker

Jonathan Walker is the Political Editor of the Birmingham Post and Birmingham Mail

The theme of Labour's annual conference in Liverpool this coming week will be "responsibility", as Ed Miliband begins trying to explain why he should become Prime Minister.