SMF Director Emran Mian discusses some of the most powerful criticisms aimed at Dr Anthony Seldon's latest Social Market Foundation pamphlet on education and schools; and suggests that their force is limited.
After a period of will he or won’t he, following speculation among his cardinals, the Chancellor George Osborne has pronounced on the national minimum wage, suggesting that he would like the UK to have a rate of £7 per hour. Social Market Foundation Director Emran Mian examines the Chancellor's speech.
Today was billed as a major speech from Ed Miliband on banking reform with the aim to increase competition. These are the issues that Labour will have to think further about and which today's speech offered no view on says Social Market Foundation Director Emran Mian.