Alison McGovern MP

Andy has shown how we can beat Reform by fighting for togetherness and an inclusive plan that lifts us all. We need him to succeed.

The Tories sneer at ordinary people and let child poverty rise. Alison Mcgovern sets out how Labour is fighting back on both fronts.

We can never give in to the forces that would divide us and send us backwards. The answer is the Labour winning over a broad coalition for our future.

When, in December 1923, the first three Labour women MPs were sworn in they brought something new to British politics. Unlike the Tory and Liberal women elected before them they had not inherited their seats. They had got into parliament…

by Alison McGovern It’s already clear that the next election will be fought on the economy. Up and down our country, it's got much harder to make ends meet. Too many families have battled through the past year, just trying to make sure…

Any Labour politician in the Wirral is aware that they stand on the shoulders of our most famous adopted son, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who I was glad to unveil a blue plaque for in 2016 on the front of his old school. It was…

It’s time to debunk Boris Johnson’s big jobs lie. Keen observers will have noticed that, whenever he is under pressure in the Commons chamber, the Prime Minister retreats to the same place. He will tell parliament that more people are in…

No sooner have we come to terms with the very difficult – if understandable – news that Margaret Hodge is standing down from parliament, now we know that Harriet Harman will no longer be in parliament after the next election. I have had to…

As the conference recess comes to an end, I have one question for you: did you see that poll? The final score, the match day news, the on-the-whistle report found that Keir Starmer's conference speech did better with a panel of the public…

Politics is complicated. And hard. Questions that really matter – whether you have a job, whether you can buy a house, whether your kids are happy at school – are never top of the agenda. Perhaps that is just the way that the news works…

What a day. From BBC breakfast in the morning, being pressed on the proposed new football 'super league' and whether it could be stopped at all, to Newsnight at 11pm, by which time the whole thing had collapsed. The past 24 hours have been…

Faced with tens of thousands of deaths and the trauma inflicted on our health and care workers, like many of us I have found it hard to care about sport. So when Dominic Rabb said he wanted to "lift the spirits of the nation" with the…