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“Doesn’t it feel good to be back on the march?” a triumphant Keir Starmer asked Labour staffers at a packed HQ this morning. It certainly will for thousands of activists today, though they deserve to put their feet-up after pounding the…
A Lot Done … A Lot to Do It’s a sign of age for the political nerd when you can’t squeeze any more campaign mugs into the kitchen cupboard. Some never see the light of day but there is one in my collection which is almost fully faded from…
As we’re waking up to a portion of the 2023 local election results, it’s important not to get too carried away. We have around a quarter of the councils up in this round of local elections fully declared, and in recent years, the ‘morning…
Keir Starmer toured the broadcast studios this morning, highlighting a well-timed Labour plea for a tougher windfall tax on the "£60m per day" energy firms apparently make, in order to freeze council tax. Well-timed not only ahead of…
Labour goes on the offensive today over housing, releasing new analysis suggesting children born this year have a one-in-three chance of home ownership when they reach 50. Not content with being the "party of business" and of "take back…
The veteran MP Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour whip following comments made in a letter to the Observer which suggested that Jewish, Traveller and Irish people do not experience racism, only "prejudice". Abbott apologised…
Another UK poll has Labour's lead narrowing today, down to 15 points, though that was before the fallout from deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab's resignation over bullying accusations. Better news in Scotland, where a Holyrood poll has…
Today was the first PMQs back after the Easter recess – and the first since the release of a series of controversial Labour attack ads targeting Rishi Sunak, of which Keir Starmer has said he stands by "every word". The two men clashed over…
The National Education Union (NEU) has called on Labour to bring in universal free meals in English primary schools if the party comes to power in its submission to the national policy forum. A source from the teaching union told the…
Just in case voters had begun to forget the details of Jeremy Hunt's budget for the fewest last month, Labour has new analysis out today that finds that the average worker would have to save for roughly 400 years to receive any benefit from…
The NEU has been holding their annual conference in Harrogate this week, with the big story thus far being that Britain's largest education union has voted overwhelmingly to reject the government's latest pay offer, a decision that charts…
Is it ever not crime week these days? Yvette Cooper has declared that vandals are "getting away scot-free" under the Tories, citing new analysis from Labour that found that the charge rate for criminal damage has fallen by almost half over…
