Labour urged to end high-stakes primary school testing by biggest teaching union
Labour faces calls from the biggest teaching union to scrap “high-stakes” tests for primary pupils and overhaul school…
Katie Neame
Unions divided over Tory pay deals, as Starmer resists ‘wading into’ debate
Good morning. The public sector pay offers set out by the government yesterday have been met with a mixed…
NEC member speaks out over rejection of all exclusion appeals, and selection costs
No Labour members have seen appeals succeed so far against expulsion for supporting rival parties or banned groups…
Rayner fleshes out plans to “clean up politics” as unions record major win
Good morning. Angela Rayner has pledged this morning that Labour will “clean up politics”, reiterating the party’s plans…
Revealed: The key changes planned to Labour’s policies at crunch summit
Labour policy chiefs are recommending the party makes more than 100 changes to a draft blueprint setting out…
Compass chief under investigation by Labour over pro-pact tweet
Labour has said the director of the centre-left think tank Compass Neal Lawson is under investigation by the…
Streeting ‘relieved’ at NHS recruitment plans but intends to ‘pore over detail’
The long-awaited NHS workforce plan has today been published, setting out plans for a significant expansion of healthcare staff across…
Rumours of a reshuffle intensify, with report one may happen as soon as July
The rumour mill about a potential reshuffle of Labour’s frontbench team continues to whirr. According to a Times report on…
Labour says ‘we’ve moved on’ from Brexit despite Lammy’s EU focus
Good morning, and a very happy Brexit day to you. Today marks seven years since the UK voted to…
Briefing: Labour targets Sunak’s mortgage woes, MPs mark Windrush
Labour has amped up the pressure on Rishi Sunak by setting out a five-point plan for how the party would…
