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Recently, 200 pairs of shoes were placed outside parliament – a pair of shoes in Parliament Square for every child that had taken their life in a year. Addressing this vigil was Rachel. She spoke movingly about her daughter’s eating…
Below is the full text of Jonathan Ashworth's conference speech. He promised that NHS investment would not be done by PFI schemes, and pledge to create "the greenest health service in the world". A few days ago a tiny seven day old baby…
Below is the full text of Jon Ashworth's speech today at the Fabian summer conference. Good morning and thank you. As a member of the Fabian Society since I was 16, an avid reader of your pamphlets and your journals, it is a real pleasure…
Good afternoon, may I start by thanking you for the invitation to offer a few remarks to you today and to let you know when I received the invitation it was one I very quickly accepted. I address you today as a Labour MP and someone who…
Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth is guest editing LabourList this week. Click here to sign up to the morning email. It’s a double celebration! Not just the birthday of the NHS, but England can now make it through a penalty shoot out…
Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth is guest editing LabourList this week. Click here to sign up to the morning email. “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the…
Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth is guest editing LabourList this week. Click here to sign up to the morning email. The NHS turns 70 this week. It remains Labour’s greatest ever achievement and the most powerful engine for social…
Today is Nurses’ Day - a chance to thank all the brilliant nursing staff around the UK who go the extra mile for each of us and our families every day of the year. 12th May is chosen to coincide with Florence Nightingale’s birthday. It’s a…
This is the full text of the speech delivered by Jon Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, at Labour conference. It is a tremendous privilege to speak from this platform, humbled in the knowledge that it was this Conference over 80 years…
On this day, 69 years ago, Aneurin Bevan founded Labour’s proudest achievement – the National Health Service, which was set up to provide universal healthcare for all, on the basis of need, free at the point of use. Nearly 70 years on, and…
The Labour movement has a proud history of giving the next generation the best possible start in life. Under Gordon Brown we worked hard to eradicate child poverty, setting ambitious targets to reduce child poverty to fewer than one in ten…
This is the full text of the speech delivered by Jonathan Ashworth, shadow health secretary, speech to Unison’s health conference in Liverpool today. It is my pleasure to be here. As a Labour MP, a trade union member. As a member of your…
