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Ed Miliband has described himself as a “sympathiser” of universal basic income and backed proposals to pilot the policy proposal that would see the government offer regular payments to individuals without a means test. The Labour…
Labour leader Keir Starmer has renewed his commitment to the ten pledges announced during the party leadership election earlier this year – including the hike in income tax for top earners – and described them as "priorities". As a…
President Trump has tested positive for Covid-19. We shouldn’t be shocked: he was probably the most likely person on the planet to contract the novel coronavirus, as a rule-defying campaigner in the world’s worst-affected nation. It was…
Labour's Shadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray has written to SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford in the search for more answers over the scandal that saw Margaret Ferrier flagrantly breach coronavirus rules this week. The MP for Rutherglen…
Six Labour MPs have joined with other parliamentary colleagues in a group of 24 to vote against renewing the provisions in the Coronavirus Act, including former leadership contender Rebecca Long-Bailey. In a vote in the House of Commons…
Soft left group Open Labour has launched a new petition calling for the UK and devolved governments to "end the Covid crisis on our campuses" as thousands of students are locked down at university. With students and university staff…
Keir Starmer's spokesperson today declined to back tuition fee or rent refund requests by university students after they were encouraged to move to campuses but soon locked down in their accommodation. Asked whether the Labour leader…
Speaker Hoyle has blocked a Tory rebellion by not selecting amendments to the coronavirus legislation this afternoon but delivered a strong rebuke in accusing the government of showing "contempt" to the House of Commons. Backbench…
Asking government ministers about restrictions that they have put into place with little debate or scrutiny, affecting millions of people in the country, has a “gotcha” element to it. That is according to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, who…
The Labour Party's Anneliese Dodds has highlighted seven ways in which the winter economic plan put forward by Rishi Sunak in a parliamentary statement last week "fails Britain’s workers" in a letter to the Chancellor. Confirming that the…
Where’s Williamson? Thousands of students – including freshers who will be at university and living away from home for the first time – are locked into their halls, some with security stationed outside their accommodation and running out of…
The Crown Prosecution Service has revealed this afternoon that Leicester East Labour MP Claudia Webbe, elected to parliament for the first time last year, has been charged with harassment against one female. Update, 5.15pm: Asked for…
