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As Parliament closes for the summer, Theresa May will be hoping that the break puts an end to the Tory infighting and plotting that has dominated the front pages ever since the country gave her a vote of no confidence at the general…
On Thursday in my role as shadow justice minister, I attended a packed meeting of Grenfell Tower fire survivors, their relatives and neighbours. I was alarmed by the harrowing reports of the ongoing crisis in providing those affected with…
No-one in the legal profession will have mourned the passing of Liz Truss’s time at the Ministry of Justice. Her tenure will be best remembered for her inability to get to grips with the prisons crisis, failing to stand up for the…
Labour wants to win the general election. We need to see the back of this cruel Conservative government. Over the next six weeks everyone in our party and the trade union and labour movement has a huge duty to fulfil. Yes, Labour is…
With the prison and courts reform bill due to be published tomorrow, a chaotic string of developments on the watch of Liz Truss, Conservative justice secretary, has exposed the scale of the crisis the prison service now faces. Yesterday, a…
Parliament returned today with the Conservative Government erecting new barriers to justice - by significantly increasing legal application fees for asylum seekers and others needing permission to remain in the UK. These are just the latest…
At this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Theresa May tried to reassure the country that her Government has been working hard over the summer. But as the new Shadow Justice Secretary, throughout Parliament’s summer break I’ve been…
Labour is looking ahead to policies that will win the next election and it is clear that the Conservatives in government have reduced access to justice – including fairness at work. Work is now less secure and pays less, leaving employees…
Abusive and threatening behaviour online and misogyny are serious societal problems that urgently need tackling. The leader of the Labour Party has made it clear that abusive and threatening behaviour, misogynistic or otherwise, is…
The attempt to remove the leader of the Labour Party without an election by trying to force him to resign has shocked, saddened and angered many Labour Party members – including members who didn’t vote for Jeremy Corbyn last year. These…
Here in Yorkshire, Labour voters and Labour members have been asking me what on earth some of our Labour MPs are up to. They are telling me that they just don’t understand why, with the Conservative Government up to its neck in trouble, the…
We are now eight years on from the banking crisis that brought the financial services sector to its knees and saw 'too big to fail' banks bailed out by the state. Eight years later and bankers’ behaviour and their bonuses remain in the…
