As reported on the front page of The Guardian, leaders from across the progressive community, civil society and from all corners of the UK have today urged every bill payer in the UK to get behind the campaign for a windfall tax on the energy and oil companies in a statement co-ordinated by Compass.

This year's Compass National Conference Born Free and Equal will take place on Saturday 14 June 2008 at the Institute of Education in London. Held in association with Unite, The Guardian and New Statesman the conference will ask the question ‘How do we deliver equality in the 21st century?', high profile speakers include amongst others Ed Miliband, Douglas Alexander, Polly Toynbee, Jon Cruddas, Neal Lawson and Ruth Lister.

New controversy has hit the Brown Government amid the speculation that Lord Digby Jones will be leaving his position as Trade Minister before the next election. The former director general of the CBI was brought in apparently in a move toward Brown's big tent politics. Jones is commonly seen as more Tory than Labour, so his departure is certainly better late than never, but the question should not be why is Digby Jones leaving? But, why was he ever allowed in, in the first place?

Over 150 people crammed into committee room 9 last night for a lively and informed debate on migration. The meeting was chaired by the country’s leading social policy commentator Polly Toynbee. The debate first heard from the Minister for Immigration, Liam Byrne who set out the reasons why he believes the policies being implemented by Labour are “firm but fair”.

IDS's 'Broken Britain' policy proposals