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Perhaps, looking back, we’ll see that this was the week when the true cost of Brexit started to be counted in Britain, and we understood who would truly pay the price. Over the last couple of weeks 17,000 car workers – 4,500 in Ellesmere…
Owen Smith, who was defeated today in the Labour leadership contest, has issued a statement: "I want to congratulate Jeremy Corbyn on his clear win in this leadership contest. There is no doubt that the Labour Party has changed under his…
As voting in the Labour leadership contest closes at 12pm, Owen Smith has written an open letter to party members and supporters. Dear friends, As the ballots close and this leadership contest draws to an end, I wanted to take this…
This is the full text of the speech given by Owen Smith at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers today. Almost a year ago exactly, Jeremy Corbyn unveiled the strapline for his new minted leadership of our party. It was a promise, he…
It’s a pleasure to be here at Campus North in Newcastle. This region has a long and proud history. Ellen Wilkinson, the Labour MP for Jarrow, was a leading figure in the Jarrow March in the 1930s. Two hundred unemployed men marched from…
It’s a pleasure to be here at the Open University. One of the biggest employers to adopt the Living Wage – and one of 28 to have adopted it here in Milton Keynes. And one of Britain’s great institutions founded by one of Britain’s great…
Here is the full text of Owen Smith's speech at the Knowledge Transfer Centre Advanced Manufacturing Park on the site of the old Orgreave coking works today: This place is a symbol of what we can do at our best. How Labour can build a…
Owen Smith has today written to Jeremy Corbyn asking him to back a plan to hold "at least one" leadership hustings in each UK region. Dear Jeremy, In less than two months’ time, Labour Party members and supporters will be casting their…
Both candidates for the Labour leadership have published personal statements, reproduced below, on the party website. A note from Owen: Labour is the greatest force for good this country has ever known and it would be the greatest honour…
As wrongheaded Government decisions go, it’s hard to imagine one much worse than deciding to make 2.5 million working families right across the country over £2,100 a year worse off. It nails your values and priorities to the mast in…
As a proud and patriotic Welshman, it is a great honour to be launching the Welsh Labour manifesto in North Wales today, along with our Labour First Minister, Carwyn Jones. But I’m even more proud that so much of the manifesto is about…
The old saying is undoubtedly true, it’s in the midst of a crisis that you find out who your real friends are. So if you are a City banker and worried that times might be about to get tough, have no fear, your oldest and staunchest allies…
