As a local politician and as the first ever female Home Secretary, Ms Smith is uniquely placed to offer UNISON members a valuable insight into what challenges she faced as a woman who reached one of the highest levels in Government, as well as offer...

You might not think there is anything special in that, but for the previous 6 years I had been a member of the Conservatives. I should have joined Labour much sooner, growing up in a working class household and benefiting as I did from so many of their...

Miliband made some headway against David Cameron and his failure to rein in the bankers. But now Smith is calling for another Labour love-in with the City. She describes Labour's 1990s canapé-based campaign as a time when "energetic Labour spokespeople...

Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, told journalists that to fragment British Law set a dangerous precedent, unaware of the pigeon dropping on the shoulder of her brand new suit. Leader of the Opposition David Cameron condemned Dr Williams’ views to the...

The Sunday Times didn’t bother to publish the LD VI for Scotland. They are simply lumped in with “others”. Welll if LD are only on 8% then Labour’s score must include the LD to Lab converters. Jacqui Smith wasn’t fully supportive of a constitutional...

Today she’s gone violently off message in her weekly column for Lord Sainsbury’s Continuity-Tony faction, Progress: “We need a ‘prawn cocktail’ offensive for the 21st century – a ‘scallops and celeriac purée’ offensive, a ‘baked figs and goats cheese’...