‘Tackling the common-law marriage myth’
Despite popular belief there is no common law marriage. The law as it stands penalises the vulnerable especially the children of cohabitants.
Mary Creagh MP
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Labour MPs who’ve ruled out a referendum should think again
Some Labour MPs are hesitant about holding another EU referendum. Although we understand their caution, the arguments simply don’t stack up. 1. “We’ve had one referendum already and cannot have another.” Without second referendums…
Mary Creagh: The Brexit debate should not distract us from using the Global Goals to tackle hunger, poverty and disease
Last year, the UK came together with 193 countries and agreed 17 ambitious sustainable development goals. The Global Goals promised to overcome a vast range of inequalities: from eliminating poverty, health inequality and hunger, to…
Defeatist talk of losing ground in May should be banished
We in the Labour Party face our first major electoral test of this parliament in a matter of weeks. On 5 May, 2,758 council seats are up for election across England, alongside the mayoralties of Salford, Bristol and London. Every one of…
Creagh: Labour is pro-business – but let regulators do their job
This Tory government has embarked with great fanfare on a drive to reduce the burden of regulation on business. The Enterprise Bill, on whose bill committee I am sitting, is the vehicle for their latest hotchpotch of supposedly…
2015 is a make or break year for international development and climate change
Tomorrow, negotiations begin in New York to agree the Sustainable Development Goals, the SDGs, which will be agreed at the United Nations in September. They will set the global development agenda for the next fifteen years and will define a…
Health will be the the bedrock of our approach to development
Today is World AIDS Day, a chance to celebrate the progress that has been made and renew our global resolve to end one of the most destructive pandemics in human history. Labour in government led the world in the fight against HIV/AIDS…
A fair deal for passengers and taxpayers
The Labour Party is committed to our railways, unlike the current government who seem more concerned pushing their ideologically driven desire to reprivatise the East Coast mainline. The last Labour government doubled the number of people…
How much longer will we have to wait before the government gets HS2 back on track?
Last week’s report from Sir David Higgins is a substantial, thoughtful and thorough analysis of how the benefits of High Speed Two can be maximised. On Friday, the Government published the HS2 Growth Task Force report, focusing on how we…
How the government buried bad news on access to transport for disabled people
The day after the Autumn Statement can be an opportunity to bury bad news. The Government’s response to the Transport Select Committee’s report on access to transport for disabled people, which was published on Friday, is just that – bad…
The Labour Party cannot – and will not – give the Government a blank cheque for HS2
David Cameron is apparently confused about what job he's doing. On Friday he seemed to say it was up to Labour to decide whether the new high speed line, HS2, should go ahead. As the Shadow Transport Secretary I'm obviously flattered that…
The Hunger Scandal
Britain is the seventh richest nation in the world yet we face a growing epidemic of hidden hunger, particularly in children. The reality of parents unable to feed their children is one of the starkest examples of the cost of living crisis…