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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
War looming at the top of the political field by Ian Hernon, Liverpool Echo FORMER Cabinet minister John Reid had a rule which, with expletives deleted, was: Be nice to those you meet on the way up because you never know who you'll meet on your way down.In the coming weeks Gordon Brown may have reason to regret he never took that advice.Birkenhead MP Frank Field, who was dumped...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
ONLY one MP broke the new Labour-Tory consensus on welfare reform to insist the proposals were too weak – Birkenhead’s Frank Field.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The Tories today gave their backing to sweeping government plans to raise the employment rate to 80% by getting thousands of people off benefits and into work.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Former Labour Social Security minister Frank Field said the Government had again failed to find the right solutions for welfare benefit
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that he had doubts whether the proposed welfare reforms would make any difference to the system and added that he had "lost count... of the number of occasions the Government has published what it thinks are radical and tough proposals and for very little to happen".
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UK Libertarian Party (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
I have a lot of time for Frank Field as a free thinker, untrammeled by the Nu Lab hysteria, I think even Frank has seen the writing on the wall if not yet ready to embrace Libertarianism
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Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Full coverage of UK politics An interesting vignette from Frank Field in the Commons last night, in which he idenitified what he feels will be judged the most significant achievements of the Labour Government since 1997. "When historians write up the Labour Government," opined the Birkenhead MP, "the two changes they will pick on as the most lasting are the ban on smoking and the establishment...
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
MERSEY MP Frank Field accused the Tories of wrecking his attempt to give siblings who live together the same inheritance tax breaks as married couples.
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Efforts to punish a group of drug companies allegedly behind one of the biggest price-fixing schemes to hit the public purse are being stepped up after the collapse of their criminal trial. Frank Field, the former Labour social security minister, on Monday wrote to Alan Johnson, health secretary, to urge further action against the businesses over a conspiracy that was allegedly taking...
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Boatang & Demetriou (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
... talented enough to make an excellent labour PM. The maverick, interesting and highly intelligent Frank Field . This is a politician who has proven his worth and ability, yet strangely enough, has never been allowed to flourish by the arseholes in the party. But like any other organisation then - the scum rises to the top. If only Field were able to get a look in to this farago...
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Schneider Home (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Its now august so its time for the ten posts of the month for July. Here they are: Chinese Regime Instability Welfare Reform - the radical proposal Boris Johnson - prallack The Politics of Nudge - say no more Sharia Law, the BNP, and Irfan Ahmed Frank Field on the individual and the State Melanie Phillips thou art an ass Hezbollah and the terror list Come on Imperial. Give a bright boy...
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David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Full coverage of UK politics The best from the blogosphere and beyond 1. We should have listened to Frank Field, opines Simon Heffer 2.
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Schneider Home (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Frank Field has once more sketched out what, in his view, a "radical" Government should do in welfare reform . (He has previously discussed a fuller plan for redressing the balance between the individual and the State ). He has been critical of Purnell's much heralded reforms to the Welfare system and sets out his own three proposals. 1. All benefits offices should become separate businesses...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Squeezing in at number 20, Frank Field would be just inside parliament and on hand to "think the unthinkable" - if they didn't punish him for the clever footwork which, while it was key in securing money back for families that lost out from the abolition of the 10p tax, also showed up the deficiencies in Brown's premiership.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... be the only cabinet ministers to survive. They would share space in the Commons with the likes of Frank Field and David Blunkett - but Brown would lose his seat.Labour will struggle to find excuses. Turnout was healthy at 42%, almost as high as at the last general election. The Labour candidate fought a strong campaign. The prime minister and his closest allies are Scottish - and...
