Jo Maugham

Jan 16, 2025 | goodlawproject.org | Jo Maugham

We don’t talk much about what kids without parents really need. Somewhere safe to live, yes, but also love. To be cherished, to be told their lives have value, to understand that they matter just as ‘normal’ children do. And for a sliver of time, kids in England who learned from bitter experience that their lives were measured only in cost got something different. They learned what it was to be loved.

Oct 12, 2024 | goodlawproject.org | Jo Maugham

What it does say on the Good Law Project tin is that we “use the law to hold power to account.” What it does not say, and it never will, is that we are an offshoot of the Labour Party or we’re only interested in beating up Tories. The need to do this emerges clearly from Labour’s first hundred days. Where Labour should have kept pensioners warm and stopped kids going to bed hungry, it instead briefed out that it would water down both of its manifesto promises to tax the super-rich.

Jul 5, 2024 | goodlawproject.org | Jo Maugham

Politics needs cleaning up. Labour will be better than the Tories were – but we need a higher bar than that. We will campaign to improve standards in public life. And we will support the Covid Corruption Commissioner, making sure they benefit from our enormous database of evidence. After an election which shamefully sidelined the climate crisis, we will keep fighting for a fairer, greener future and put reaching net zero front and centre.

Jun 25, 2024 | lbc.co.uk | Jo Maugham

Alleged betting scandal mirrors the Tories’ political favours of the pandemic The Tories have now withdrawn support for two candidates, Craig Williams and Laura Saunders, being investigated by the Gambling Commission over alleged bets about the date of the General Election. Picture: Alamy/Getty/Laura Saunders If you like a bet every now and then you’ll have acted on inside information. Maybe your boss tells you he expects his horse to do well at Lingfield Park this evening.

May 2, 2024 | goodlawproject.org | Jo Maugham

The Tories have had to come clean on the dirty campaigners they’re working with. We’re fighting to stop political parties illegally gathering data and targeting voters with bespoke misinformation. After stalling for months, the Tories have finally folded and told me what they have been doing with my data: sharing it with shady PR companies, dodgy campaigners and a cabal of rightwing journalists.