The reality today is that women with career and family ambitions need to be as disciplined as or even more so than male counterparts.
We do need better public services - of that there is no doubt. However, I am not convinced that many of the prescriptions in "Better Public Services" will deliver them.
In the minds of some Tories, the boundary changes may have been a substitute for making the tough choices necessary to reach out to voters still sceptical of the Tory brand.
Whether it's shopping, working or paying bills, our daily lives are increasingly taking place online. Yet as things go digital, there's a risk that older people in Britain, like my dear mother, may get left behind.
In short, Leahy sees that the public's view of what they actually want from their government is more often ignored than not. And while some of the best private companies embrace the service ethos of the public sector, the efficiency of the former is rarely taken up by the latter.
The government's desire to see more locally-facing pay in the public sector has run into difficulties. Trade unions, MPs and the wider public have raised doubts about the idea -notably, that it would suck public money and demand out of struggling regions.
A right-wing think tank has suggested councils should sell off expensive houses to fund new building developments. Policy Exchange, an influential ...
Doesn't it make sense, with 4.5 million people in housing need, to boost supply? Surely those in need and on low incomes should not expect to be housed centrally anyway (the myth-makers like to refer to 'Mayfair' or 'near Harrods' as if these neighbourhoods of the global mega-rich are stuffed with council estates). Well, no, it doesn't make sense. Because behind the beguiling simplicity of the idea lie some complex realities, and as an MP for North Westminster, and previously for the much-cited example of Notting Hill, I have some knowledge of these.
A right-wing think tank has been accused of pushing for the poor to be driven out of wealthy areas after suggesting councils should sell off expensive...
The debate around Scottish independence is one which the Scottish Nationalists have of late, like it or not, done an excellent job of defining, driving and dominating.
Police pensions are becoming "unaffordable for taxpayers" with contributions doubling to almost £2bn, a report claims. Taxpayers are picking up ab...
Private companies should be encouraged to take over and run state schools as profit making enterprises under a "John Lewis-style" business model, a th...
The fostering system is failing thousands of vulnerable children who end up in jail and lacking basic qualifications, a report has warned. The numb...
Slack rules that allow the unemployed to count haircuts as job hunting must be toughened, a leading think tank has said. Instead p...
Police officers should be required to wear their uniforms while commuting in to work, a think-tank has suggested. Increasing the visibility of poli...
