Chris Bryant

Jun 5, 2024 | moneycontrol.com | Chris Bryant

The Tories’ education report card leaves plenty for the next government to improve on. {Source: Bloomberg/Getty Images Europe (2020) } This is part of a series on what 14 years of Tory rule have delivered for Britain’s economy, society and standing in the world. The challenges awaiting the next government are numerous. Education reform is one area the Conservative Party has made a difference in the past 14 years, helping England advance in international education rankings (in relative terms).

Mar 13, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Chris Bryant

It was 1984 and I was a conservative (as opposed to Conservative) 22-year-old training to be a priest in the Church of England when I first came across this book by the Peruvian Catholic priest Gustavo Gutiérrez. A Theology of Liberation was the foundation document for the Latin American movement of liberation theology, which preached that in Jesus, God had made a preferential option for the poor.

Feb 28, 2024 | politicshome.com | Chris Bryant |Noa Hoffman

3 min read A harrowing and beautifully told story, Chris Bryant’s meticulously researched book about the last two men to be hanged in Britain for being gay makes for painful reading The stench of injustice casts a shroud over public life at the moment. Horizon. Infected blood. Hillsborough. Grenfell. Windrush.

Feb 10, 2024 | thisismoney.co.uk | Chris Bryant

There was barely time to register what the Recorder at the Old Bailey had just said. With evident relish, he’d condemned James Pratt and John Smith to death – and now, still reeling, they were being herded through a narrow passageway known as Birdcage Walk. With iron crossbars overhead – to prevent any desperate attempts to escape – it led straight back to the notorious Newgate Gaol, where all executions took place. For James and John, it was a particularly hideous journey.

Feb 9, 2024 | waterstones.com | Chris Bryant

'They had nothing to expect from the mercy of the crown; their doom was sealed; no plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime, and they well knew that for them there was no hope in this world.'When Charles Dickens wrote these tragic lines he was penning fact, not fiction. He had visited the condemned cells at the infamous prison at Newgate, where seventeen men who had been sentenced to death were awaiting news of their pleas for mercy.