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Ed Miliband will return to the political frontline on Tuesday with a direct appeal to Labour supporters to vote to stay in the EU in order to tackle climate change and tax evasion and help solve the refugee crisis. The former party leader…
John McDonnell has called on George Osborne to rip-up his "chaotic" Budget and start again as the Treasury performed a u-turn on disability cuts as well as reversing two other measures. On a busy afternoon the shadow Chancellor attacked…
Jeremy Corbyn has sought to capitalise on the Tories' meltdown over disability cuts by calling on George Osborne to resign as Chancellor. He has told the BBC that Osborne should be "considering his position" following the spectacular row…
A group of Labour MPs and activists from across the party is about to launch a new unity group in an attempt to combat the "factionalism" which has become endemic in the party. Consensus says it will draw upon party members who have been…
The bedroom tax Perhaps the most controversial of all of the spending cuts delivered by Iain Duncan Smith, the ending of the "spare room subsidy" destroyed at a stroke the coalition's pretence that "we are all in it together". The bedroom…
Iain Duncan Smith stunned Westminster on Friday night by quitting the Cabinet over George Osborne's plans to slash support for disabled people. He resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary saying the plan to cut £4bn from the budget for…
Jeremy Corbyn has received a significant boost from a new opinion poll which gives Labour a slender lead for the first time since he replaced Ed Miliband. The YouGov poll for The Times put Labour on 34 per cent and the Tories on 33 per cent…
British people face a longer period of lower wages and reduced living standards as spending cuts continue beyond 2020, one of Britain's leading forecasters said today as he pulled apart George Osborne's Budget. Paul Johnson, director of the…
John McDonnell has ruled out fighting the next General Election with any plans for spending cuts, pledged more borrowing and appeared to dismiss capitalism in its current form. The shadow Chancellor said developing a fairer system of…
Jeremy Corbyn hated this Budget. Of course, leaders of the Opposition generally don't like Tory Budgets, but the anger was coursing through Corbyn as he delivered his response to the "bully" George Osborne. That meant it was a good day for…
Dear Jeremy, I have covered multiple Budgets and Autumn Statements - "fiscal events" in the dry jargon - over a decade as a reporter, Labour Party researcher and adviser and am looking forward to tomorrow's set-piece, my first as editor of…
Rachel Reeves has raced out of the blocks ahead of next week's Budget by publishing her own wishlist of reforms and attacking George Osborne for placing Britain's economic needs at the mercy of the Tory leadership race. Reeves, a former…
