Former teaching colleagues, local teachers and experts all agree: restricting phone use in schools can have a massive positive impact. Local schools like Hitchin Boys' School are leading the way, but we need all schools to step up. I pushed Ministers to ensure they do 👇

Sometimes assumed worries on smartphones & social media are just moral panic from older generations, but having conducted one of the most in-depth studies into attitudes to young people & social media with New Britain it’s clear young people themselves want action.

Great @ft piece by Anna McShane - this should be part of the UK's industrial strategy:ft.com/content/b2d9e5…

Oped from me in Financial Times. We keep saying growth is the mission. But unless we fix high-skilled visas, we’ll miss this moment - just like all the others. Nations that succeed in attracting best minds will gain a decisive edge: in AI, biotech, energy - the architecture of 21C power.

Typically common sense proposals from New Britain while the public are clear they want overall numbers on immigration to fall there is strong consensus of voters across the spectrum for attracting the most highly skilled to the UK.

I wrote this for LabourList two years ago. Starmer's biggest challenge remains the same now as it was then - convincing voters things can only get better.

This is spot on and echos what I argued pre -election in LabourList Faced with a broken Britain, Starmer's project will fail if not bold enough. Link 🔽

No matter who's in charge, people are fed up. Voters see ALL politicians as the same. Our latest polling with More in Common shows even Reform UK - who present themselves as outsiders - are not immune. If they won the next election, they’d likely end up right where Labour is now.

Tilly Macdonald recently wrote in The Spectator that she doesn’t want her husband to have more paternity leave, because he doesn’t know how to do the laundry and “clatters about’ in the kitchen. But paternity leave isn’t the problem, says Paul Nowak. Tilly’s husband is.

🎖️ New school cadet units have been confirmed by the MoD, with disadvantaged areas set to be targeted, the minister for veterans and people has told Schools Week schoolsweek.co.uk/new-school-cad…

Great to see John Healey announce £70m to expand cadets in schools. Our Permission to Expand report showed cadets give young people confidence, purpose & duty - yet most state schools don’t have one. Public strongly backs expansion via our polling with More in Common