Dear friends,
Earlier this week I became Chair of the APPG on Inclusive Growth at the group's inaugural meeting.
To mark the occasion I have written a piece for the Evening Standard which was published this afternoon. See below.
All the best
Liam
Liam Byrne: The market is failing - we need a new way forward
Dear friends,
This morning I gave a speech to the City of Westminster College entitled; 'Ending the gap between classroom and career: Labour’s next steps in skills and higher education reform'
See the full text below:
Ending the gap between classroom and career: Labour’s next steps in skills and higher education reform
Speech by Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Universities, Science and Skills
Dear friends,
To coincide with the visit of the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang I spoke with a journalist from one of the leading Chinese news agencies - Xinhua News Agency.
The interview and subsequent piece has been picked up by a number of Chinese news outlets, for example here, but you can read the text here below:
I recently did an interview with People's Daily one of the largest news organisations in China. I spoke about the need for deeper relations between the UK and China and shared my understanding of 'the Chinese Dream'.
You can watch my interview using the link below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-bBpKook
If we are to compete in the global race, long-term thinking and investment in science and technology are crucial.
Sea changes, said Jim Callaghan, arrive in politics only once every 30 years. The last one back in the Seventies brought us Margaret Thatcher, neo-liberalism and the infamous battle cry “Greed is good”.
50 years on from Harold Wilson’s famous speech on the ‘white heat’ of the technological revolution, Shadow Minister for Universities and Science Liam Byrne MP will set out Labour’s approach to science and innovation in a speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
To mark Engineers week, shadow higher education minister Liam Byrne stresses the importance of inspiring the next generation of scientists.
My article in the Yorkshire post, 13 September 2013
Only a Yorkshire firm would have the chutzpah to sell tea to China. Yet, nearly 10 years ago, that was the deal delivered by Taylors of Harrogate, the makers of Yorkshire Tea, which dispatched its first £30,000-worth of flavoured teas to Shanghai. It was an auspicious sign for the future – and it’s the kind of story we need to hear far more.