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Kim McGuinness was first elected as Northumbria's police and crime commissioner in 2019. Now she's standing to be Labour's candidate for the newly created North East mayoralty. The shortlist for the position has recently been confirmed, and…
The Labour party backs tenants' right to buy social housing to "extend wealth ownership", but does not support rent controls or untargeted mortgage relief, according to a shadow cabinet member. Lisa Nandy also highlighted the "taboo" around…
It is the definition of nipping it in the bud. Dozens of Labour MPs were reported last night to be putting pressure on the party leadership to extend free school meals to all primary school children. The "intense lobbying" for a measure…
The Times suggests Labour has "abandoned" another proposal for government in the shape of a £3 billion tax raid on tech firms like Amazon and Facebook. Labour confirmed it has "no plans" to raise the digital services tax.
A screening of the controversial film Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie appears to have gone ahead at Glastonbury, despite festival organisers cancelling another planned screening after a backlash and accusations of antisemitism. Initially…
What a turn of events. Yesterday morning LabourList published a review of Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie, including a call by author Paul Mason for the Glastonbury Festival not to screen the controversial film this week. Within 24 hours, it…
Keir Starmer set out how Labour would seek to make Britain a "clean energy superpower" in a speech in Leith, Scotland, today. New announcements included plans to headquarter a new Great British Energy company in Scotland, planning reform to…
Trade union leaders have written a joint letter to Labour's leader and governing body over the exclusion of Jamie Driscoll from a mayoral shortlist, calling it a "monumental own goal". The letter, seen by LabourList, was signed by the…
Tributes have been paid to the former Labour MP and double Oscar-winning actor Glenda Jackson, who has died at the age of 87. The former MP for Hampstead and Highgate, and then Hampstead and Kilburn, had suffered a "brief illness" and…
Good morning. Say what you like about Labour's U-turns, but they don't seem to have done much harm to its poll lead. The latest figures from Savanta put Labour on 45%, with the Tories down to 28%, the best in a month, while Keir Starmer has…
And so the great Labour policy rowback continues. One of Labour's most radical – and expensive – policies to date under Keir Starmer's leadership has been its £28bn-a-year green prosperity plan, unveiled in 2021. Today Rachel Reeves has…
Labour has rowed back on its pledge to invest £28bn a year in the transition to a green economy, with Rachel Reeves announcing that the party in government would instead ramp up investment over time to reach the annual total. The move…
