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The UK is suffering an employment crisis that is compounding its cost-of-living crisis. Well over a million people are out of work despite wanting a job. They – and the country – can no longer afford the Tory failure to help people into…
Below is the full text of the speech delivered to the Labour Party conference by Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth in Liverpool this morning. Last Friday’s Tory Budget was the most unfair, the most unjust, the most…
Below is the full text of the speech delivered by Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth to the Learning and Work Institute today: Good afternoon. It’s a pleasure to be here with the Learning and Work Institute. For over 100…
Elective waiting lists are the highest ever recorded. The target on A&E waiting times has not been met for six years and ambulance response times are the worst ever, endangering patients. More and more people are being forced to pay for…
Inequality in health is the worst kind. If we address the factors that mean some people live shorter lives, in more pain, and with physical limitations, because of socioeconomic circumstances over which they have little control, we take…
Below is the full text of the speech delivered by Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth to Labour Party conference 2021. I start by simply saying, thank you. Thank you to those who gave so much and so selflessly. Our national heroes…
The Russell T Davies hit drama It's A Sin is still racking up record-breaking views on Channel 4’s on-demand service and across the globe on HBO. It has sparked an epic conversation about HIV in the 1980s and early '90s. A time of real…
Today, April 7th, marks World Health Day. After a year unlike any we’ve experienced before, it is a timely moment to reflect on the relationship between the environment and our health. The pandemic we are currently living through occurred…
Below is the full text of Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth's IPPR speech on resilience and preparing for future pandemics. A year ago, Boris Johnson told us: “Our country remains extremely well prepared, as it has been since the…
Below is the full text of Jonathan Ashworth's House of Commons response to the South Yorkshire coronavirus restrictions. So another great swathe of the North is put into lockdown. Sheffield went into Tier 2 last Wednesday, so did ministers…
Below is the full speech delivered by Jonathan Ashworth tonight in response to Matt Hancock's House of Commons statement. Tonight, people across Manchester, Bury, Bolton, Leigh, Stockport, Trafford will be watching the news worried asking…
Below is the full text of the speech delivered by Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth at Labour's online 'Connected' conference. Day after day, week after week our NHS staff showed the most extraordinary compassion, dedication…
