Former Tory Minister Edwina Currie has certainly been busy in the last few weeks. First she said that people didn’t need to choose between heating and eating in the 21st century, for which she was later taken to task by Owen Jones. Now she’s gone on the attack against wealthy pensioners who wish to pass on their winter fuel allowance to charity, and clashed with agony aunt Denise Robertson in a rather unusual interview:
Internationalism, a movement advocating greater economic and political cooperation among nations for the benefit of all, has been a strong tradition within the Labour party from the beginning. Our values and ideals have always looked beyond our shores and have contributed to influencing and shaping Britain’s role in an increasingly interdependent world. We have a record that we can be proud of. We supported the establishment of the League of Nations in the inter-war years. We backed Indian independence and […]
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Brent’s Labour-run council will today become the first in the country to give discounted business rate to companies that pay the living wage. Under this policy, if employers in the area pay all of their workers £9.15 (the London Living Wage) or more, they could save up to £5,000 on business rates. 30% of this will be paid by the council, while government policy means that central government will pay half and the Greater London Authority will pay the remaining […]
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Over the weekend, Jim Murphy announced that a Scottish Labour government would put a stop to fracking. Now Caroline Flint, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change and Maria Eagle, Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, have announced Labour will force a vote to stop developments regarding shale gas extraction. In an article for the Guardian, the two leading Labour politicians explain that “shale gas extraction cannot go ahead in the UK without […]
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Peter Mandelson, former Labour MP and now peer in the House of Lords, has warned that Labour should prepare for a potential coalition with the Lib Dems. Mandelson, who also voiced criticism of Labour’s mansion tax proposals last week, stressed that he still thought it was possible for Labour to win an outright majority but that they should be prepared for all eventualities. Mandelson was one of the leading figures who attempted to orchestrate a coalition with the Lib Dems in […]
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A group of 15 Labour MPs have issued a public statement this morning, expressing concern about elements of Labour’s policy agenda, and urging a change of course in three key areas. The letter – signed by MPs on the left of the Parliamentary Labour Party – calls for an alternative to Labour’s current deficit reduction plans, public ownership of the railways and a return to collective bargaining and employment rights in the workplace. Update: This post originally listed 16 MPs […]
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