Tag Archives: politics

A single enforcement body for workers’ rights: OK, it’s taken 25 ****ing years, but … we’re finally there!

Posted on April 6, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

Between 2000 and 2013, while working as employment policy officer at Citizens Advice, I researched and wrote a series of deadly boring policy reports arguing for a consolidation of the three main labour market enforcement bodies – the HMRC minimum wage enforcement … Continue reading →

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Assisted dying: Labour’s self-administered lethal cocktail

Posted on December 2, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

So, on Friday, 236 Labour MPs voted for Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting, Shabana Mahmood and the rest of the Labour Government to assume responsibility for Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide Bill, and for the increasingly bitter Red-on-Red warfare of the last … Continue reading →

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Assisted dying: Kim gets Keir off the hook, but at what price?

Posted on October 17, 2024 by wonkypolicywonk

So, Keir Starmer had himself filmed making a personal promise to TV celebrity Esther Rantzen – Democracy 2024, innit – and now backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, having had her numbered wooden ball pulled out of a glass bowl at … Continue reading →

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