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Keir Starmer has committed to implementing a ‘Race Equality Act’ as the Labour Party launches a new report on the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus crisis on minority ethnic communities. Baroness Doreen Lawrence was tasked by…
Keir Starmer has defended the Labour Party's positions on Scottish independence and the controversial 'spycops' bill in the latest 'Call Keir' that took place this afternoon with Glasgow voters. As the UK Labour leader spoke to Scottish…
Things are not going well for Boris Johnson. When not voting against free school meals, the government spent this week battling with Andy Burnham and other local leaders over the imposition of Tier 3 restrictions without extra financial…
Anneliese Dodds has criticised the government for "always running to keep up" after the Chancellor used his third economic update in a month to unveil more financial support for businesses in the second coronavirus wave. Rishi Sunak told…
Conservative MPs dutifully, or worse enthusiastically, traipsed into the voting lobbies yesterday to reject a “fair deal” for Tier 3 areas and to oppose free school meals during holidays in the coronavirus crisis. Yet it was not these votes…
Trade union general secretaries, mayors including Sadiq Khan, Labour MPs and councillors have come together to release a joint statement setting out a series of demands for the next phase of coronavirus. Declaring that the government's…
The government has defeated – by a majority of 79 votes – the Labour motion in the House of Commons this afternoon that demanded a "fair one nation deal" for those living under Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions. Labour had been calling on the…
The coronavirus crisis has always been intensely political, but it has only recently become intensely party political. With the confidence of a man who has fought many Westminster and internal Labour battles, before finding clarity of…
Labour mayor Andy Burnham has declared that "this fight is not over" after the UK government rejected the proposal to give Greater Manchester £15m a month to prevent poverty while the area is in Tier 3. Days of negotiations between the…
Since I last wrote an explainer on Labour's 2020 national executive committee elections back in July, three of the 18 seats up for grabs have been taken: incumbents George Howarth, Margaret Beckett and Shabana Mahmood were chosen again by…
Gordon Brown is calling for a UK-wide jobs summit as youth unemployment amid the coronavirus economic crisis is set to rocket and one million young people are predicted to be out of work by November 1st. The former Labour Prime Minister…
The government is pushing on with its messy local lockdown plan, insisting that the national ‘circuit break’ idea advocated by Keir Starmer, leaders in Greater Manchester and its own scientific advisory group is merely “political…
