There is a new generation of active older women who have led very different lives from their mothers. Now in their 50s and 60s, they are the first generation of women to have been "doing it all". They have worked, as well as bringing up children. They've got educational qualifications and then when their children leave home, these women regard themselves as being into their stride and in their prime.

When my constituents started writing to me with their fears about the impact of the Bedroom Tax I was shocked. So on February 18th I started living on a food budget of £18 a week and video-blogging about it each day. This is the amount some of my constituents will be left with to feed themselves in April.

We are often accused being little Englanders and against immigration per se. We are not. We would happily welcome the brightest and best from around the world, regardless of country, religion or race, but we would not welcome those whose own countries would benefit from their brightest and best staying at home to help build them out of poverty.

George Osborne has insisted he will press ahead with austerity measures despite the UK losing its top-rated AAA credit rating. Dragged to the Commo...

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee report on the Work Programme, which was published last week, is the latest in a series of academic, analytical and media critiques which have demonstrated that the Programme has not lived up to its promise - or at least the promise of Ministers.

More unemployed people would have found jobs since 2010 if the government's high-profile, multi-billion pound Work Programme had never been invented, ...

There are more than 3.5 million people between the age of 50 and 64 who are workless in the UK and for many people in this age group, redundancy and unemployment is a significant problem.

My view is that uncontrolled immigration has led to wholesale job losses for the unskilled and semi-skilled; put a strain on the housing stock and has led to men in this category earning less than their womenfolk for the first time.

If you're living in an area with a high rate of crime, shouldn't you instantly be in the right to protect yourself the best way you can?

Without first establishing that the old ways of thinking were misconceived, new approaches cannot be brought in to take their place. Yet the evidence so far does not suggest that Miliband's Labour is willing to take even this crucial first step.