Home ownership now out of reach for most young people, study finds
Owning a home a distant dream for young people 'who do not have the luxury of relying on the bank of Mum and Dad'
Alan Milburn
Mid Staffs scandal: Patient interests were neglected for years by NHS
Sir David Nicholson accepted that he was “part” of an environment where the leadership of the NHS “lost its focus” and which indirectly led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients at Stafford Hospital
Dominic Lawson We can't let this obsession with class compromise academic standards
Alan Milburn, the Coalition's social mobility Tsar, has a set of new proposals to help disadvantaged pupils get into University. But has he really thought this through?
Milburn hits out at 'poison' of Britain's class system
Politicians who say they want to break down social barriers have been told to unlock closed-shop professions
Come clean on child poverty failure, Alan Milburn tells Government
Adviser urges Cameron to act as cuts push more children below legally binding threshold
Milburn attacked for taking coalition role
Alan Milburn faced an angry backlash from former colleagues last night after he became the most prominent Labour figure to accept a job from the Tory-Liberal Democrat Government.
Matthew Norman: And who knows better about social mobility?
The Government's hiring of Alan Milburn as its "social mobility tsar" provides the most seismic event of its kind for a very long time ... possibly as long ago as the appointment of puritan £5m birthday-party man Philip Green as our anti-profligate spending tsar.
A collaborator whose conscience is perfectly clear
Labour MP Frank Field tells Andy McSmith how he incurred the wrath of his own party by becoming the coalition's 'poverty tsar'
Tim Lott: There is a solution to class-ridden Britain
Tackling the litany of inequalities highlighted by Alan Milburn last week would benefit the whole country, but still we shun it
The Big Question: Why has Britain become more unequal, and can it be
Because a damning picture of an increasing dominance of top jobs by children from the wealthiest families emerged yesterday in a strongly worded report.
Crackdown on second jobs: A new front in expenses controversy
The expenses row has destroyed public faith in their MPS, and now the focus is turning to their lucrative outside earnings
Brown announces Iraq war inquiry – but it will be behind closed
PM's move is designed to bolster position with backbenchers as Miliband continues dithering, but opposition MPs will react with outrage at secrecy surrounding long-awaited investigation
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Archer and Black could escape Lords ban
Plan to expel peers in wake of cash scandal may not be retrospective
Prescott backs PM – by comparing him to the captain of the
An attempt by John Prescott to rally support for Gordon Brown backfired after he compared the Prime Minister to the captain of the Titanic.
Ailing Brown turns to Campbell and Mandelson to mastermind his
Gordon Brown has turned to key allies of Tony Blair, including his former communications director Alastair Campbell, for advice on how to plot a fightback against the Conservatives.
Blair backs Brown, but his private view is less supportive
In public, Tony Blair rallied behind his successor yesterday, saying Gordon Brown could not be blamed for Britain's economic woes that are beyond his control.