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Below is the full text of Anneliese Dodds' speech to Reuters this afternoon on the upcoming spending review. Last week, I visited the amazing team in Oxford developing a vaccine for Covid-19. As news emerges of increasing successes from…
Below is the full text of the response offered by Anneliese Dodds to the Chancellor's economic update in parliament today. I would like to thank the Chancellor for his statement, and for advance copy of the announcement. I have called for…
Below is the full text of the speech delivered by the Shadow Chancellor today at Labour's online 'Connected' conference. Thank you, Marie, and thank you for all your work to highlight the appalling impact of this crisis on disabled people…
Below is the full text of the speech delivered by Anneliese Dodds in response to the Chancellor's summer economic update in parliament today. Our country has been through a great deal over these past few months. Hundreds of thousands have…
Below is the full text of the first Commons speech delivered by Anneliese Dodds as Shadow Chancellor. I’m grateful to the Chancellor for advance sight of this statement, and that he has accepted my request to meet again with him. I want to…
We’d all be shocked if gangs of robbers were allowed to choose how they should be sentenced. But this government seems determined to pass on responsibility for dealing with economic crime to those who have been implicated in it. Tax…
Seven months on from the referendum, and - unsurprisingly - discussions over the UK’s withdrawal from the EU are proving to be complex and controversial in equal measure. In two months’ time, Theresa May will have triggered article 50. The…
Ever since Britain voted to leave the EU, many politicians and pundits - from the left as well as right - have been claiming that after Brexit the UK will be free of the EU’s "regulatory shackles" and able to go it alone. One such “shackle”…
On this day 87 years ago the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act came into law. It allowed women to vote at 21, the same age as men. Looking back, the arguments against women voting seem bizarre. Yet many of the same…
Of all Cameron's requests from the EU, his call for regulatory reform has been one of the most specific, yet it has received little scrutiny outside the trade union movement. Indeed, of all the thousands of comments on the CBI's call to…
