DERMOT MURNAGHAN: The Prime Minister said this week he would do whatever he could to keep Britain safe from the storm but Labour say the austerity measures have already failed in Greece and they are putting Britain at risk as well. Let's say a very good morning to the Shadow Chancellor, good morning Mr Balls. [...]

It’s all over – and what a fabulous season it’s been. Premier League football secured at Carrow Road. Spurs and Arsenal both humbled. Grant Holt’s hero status secured. Paul Lambert all but deified. The next couple of months will inevitably be a bit flat for the Canary faithful. I’m hoping the European championships and the Olympics [...]

The coming months are critical for the future of Europe. Jobs and business investment – in Britain and across the euro area – depend on Europe’s leaders choosing the right course. The risk is that Europe gets locked into a false choice between growth and deficit reduction. The truth is that we need the right combination [...]

Two years ago George Osborne set out his economic mission to “deal with our debts, set our country on a brighter economic course and show that we are all in this together”. How things have changed. It's now clear that on all these three counts the government's economic strategy has failed. First, on securing a brighter economic [...]

It was a huge privilege to open the new Thomas Tallis school today. It is a fantastically impressive example of the Building Schools for the Future programme.  But the most impressive thing – kids in a year 7 class I dropped [...]

As this advertisement for a new Chief Executive for Movement for Change makes clear, we are looking for someone to replace Blair McDougall.  Blair has done a fantastic job in setting up the organisation in its first 15 months.  In [...]

It was an honour to be part of a remarkable memorial service to Marie Colvin – war correspondent extraordinaire – at St Martin's in the Fields today.  Marie was killed by President Assad's forces as she reported from the siege [...]

I met Sgt Andy Rogers and other members of our local policing team as part of their March and lobby of Parliament yesterday.

Congratulations to all the Councillors; Labour and Independent who were elected across our area last week.

Andrew Neil: Ed Balls good to have you back so soon but we had the – Ed Balls: Well George Osborne's come out, I suppose I should too. AN: Exactly and you're not so much of a submarine, we see more of you. Now the Chancellor said on Andrew Marr this morning that the economy has [...]

David Dimbleby: How do you feel about these results that have come in? Ed Balls: They are good results but they show that we have got more to do, to be honest David. We've won councils across the south, the eastern region, Birmingham, done brilliantly in Wales. We've taken lots of gains. Congratulations to those new [...]

Press Release Staff working as nursery nurses, cleaners and kitchen assistants in Further Education need a living wage – this is the clear message coming from Labour MP David Miliband and UNISON chief, Dave Prentis.  The call comes in the [...]

It is good news that Pontefract A&E is to re-open soon, but there is a lot more work that needs to be done to stop the long waits and cancelled operations at Pinderfields, that have been undermining care for my constituents. And I am also worried that the Government's NHS reforms are set to make things worse not better.

Over the last few months Movement for Change has been working to sign-up the quarter of a million unregistered voters across London. The last mayoral election was won by Boris and the depressingly cynical ‘doughnut' strategy which relied on low [...]

I have consistently been deeply unconvinced that an elected Mayor would be good for my constituents and the Wakefield district. I will be voting ‘no' in the referendum which the Conservative-led coalition Government has imposed on our area.

DERMOT MURNAGHAN: Well now, if you believe the polls, Labour are storming ahead of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats but not on the economy. Labour's two Eds cannot persuade the public that they could get us back on track more quickly than Dave and George so why not? Well let's say a very good [...]

Ed Balls MP, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, responding to today's US economic growth figures, said: “The results of two different economic strategies are increasingly clear to see. By taking a more balanced approach over the last couple of years, with a jobs plan to support the recovery, President Obama has delivered a growing economy in America. But [...]

Under the garden by the pond at Stanley St Peters is a time capsule. In 20 years or so someone will dig it up to find out what the children of 2012 thought of the big events of the day. Last week the pupils of Stanley St Peters spent time considering what children in the future might think of what's going on in 2012.

Yesterday was a Black Wednesday for families, pensioners and businesses across our country as we learned Britain has plunged back into recession. And let's be clear, this is a recession made in Downing Street by David Cameron and George Osborne. The Tories were told their reckless austerity policies would backfire. But they arrogantly refused to listen. Last weekend [...]

David Cameron and George Osborne complacently boasted their austerity plan had taken our economy out of the danger zone, but their failed policies have plunged us back into recession. We consistently warned that their austerity plan was self-defeating and that cutting spending and raising taxes too far and too fast would badly backfire. David Cameron and [...]