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 Causes to Fight For: Fabian election special
Monday 29th March, Westminster
The Child Trust Fund (CTF) is often cited as one of Labour's greatest achievements in power, encouraging saving and enabling young people from all backgrounds to start their adult lives with some financial assets. However, the CTF is under threat. The Liberal Democrats fought the last general election pledging to abolish it, while the Conservatives have described it as a "luxury" and want to limit it to the poorest sections of the population.
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 Causes to Fight For: Fabian election special
Monday 22nd March, TUC
As the general election draws near the Fabian Society will be hosting a series of high profile public events to focus attention on the causes we think are worth fighting for. In this event, Housing Minister John Healey argues that we need to reach out to "real" middle Britain: the millions of people living on or around average household earnings who have been hit hardest by the recession.
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 A major new Fabian report sets out a strategy for how to reduce, eliminate and prevent poverty in Britain, even in the recession.
'The Solidarity Society' by Tim Horton and James Gregory argues that New Labour's covert redistribution has failed to win public support for tackling poverty and inequality.
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The Fabian Causes to Fight For New Year Conference 2010 on 16 January kicked off with a keynote speech from the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in front of more than 700 delegates in which he promised to fight for Britain's mainstream middle.
* You can read the full text of the Prime Minister's speech here* You can listen to podcasts from the panel discussions here
* Blogging from the sessions took place all day at Next Left.
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 Labour should talk up its record on redistribution, Alistair Darling tells the Fabian Review. He admitted they had shied away from this in the past but indicated measures on fairness would be a big part of the election campaign. “There’s been far more redistribution than people realise,” he told Mary Riddell.
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