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Chris Grayling’s Probation Reforms Have Cost People Their Lives
As the Government announces plans to renationalise probation, reversing the catastrophic privatisation of the service, former MP Ian Lucas explains how the murder of a constituent obliterated his faith in the criminal justice system.
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Keir Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet: Talking About a New Generation
Former Labour MP Ian Lucas explains how the party’s fresh frontbench team is not Ed Miliband revisited.
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It’s Finally Time for Michael Gove to Come Clean Over Referendum Wrongdoing
A former MP and member of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee – which investigated disinformation and fake news during the 2016 EU Referendum – calls on the Cabinet Office Minister to reveal what he knew about electoral wrongdoing.
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Whittingdale Returns: Who Remains to Ride to the Rescue of the BBC?
Former Labour MP and Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee member Ian Lucas considers what John Whittingdale’s return to the department as a minister spells for the future of the public service broadcaster.
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Did the Leave Campaigns Share Our Data? Key Questions Over Brexit Referendum Remain Unanswered
Former Labour MP Ian Lucas explains why we still need answers on electoral wrongdoing and data antics during the EU Referendum.
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Labour Must Urgently Engage with the Regions if it is to Recover from its Defeat
The former Labour MP for Wrexham – a seat snatched by the Conservatives in the General Election – believes it is an indictment of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership that his frontbench did not engage effectively with the regions. Amid the carnage of the General Election result, Labour must, immediately, start thinking. One of the urgent areas…
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Boris Johnson’s Selfish Lies on Russian Interference Put our Entire Democratic System at Risk
Retiring Labour MP and Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee member Ian Lucas urges the Prime Minister to take the threat posed by Putin’s Russia seriously – and put the UK before his own personal interests.
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Johnson, Gove, Cummings: The Trio Behind a Law-Breaking Campaign Obstructing Further Investigation – What are they Hiding?
MP Ian Lucas asks why Boris Johnson and his team will not appear before Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee to answer his important questions about electoral law.
