The Lib Dems have come up with detailed education policies. Why can’t Labour? | Fiona Millar

Corbyn’s promises to spent more money mean nothing until he tells us what it will be spent on

The row about who should chair Labour’s National Policy Forum, which overshadowed its recent meeting, is probably of limited interest to anyone not preoccupied by the party’s factional tussles, but it did have one important consequence: little discussion seems to have taken place about policy.

It is debatable how much influence the party’s policy-making body has had in the last 20 years. For much of Labour’s time in power, change emerged from one or two powerful individuals at the heart of government rather than the party’s more democratic policy commissions.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2ImrlHW