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Wales appears to be on course for its closest election since devolution, and there has been a gloomy prediction that the May 6th contest will be Labour's worst ever result. A YouGov poll earlier this month projected that the ruling party…
The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs, 176 of them, have voted in favour of renewing the emergency coronavirus legislation that extends significant powers to the government until October. 21 did not: an unusual coalition on the opposition…
"You just can't trust the Conservatives to protect our armed forces," Keir Starmer told parliament today. The Labour leader and Boris Johnson clashed this afternoon over the recently unveiled reductions to the army size. Reminding MPs that…
Dominic Cummings may have left 10 Downing Street last year, but that won't stop Labour from reminding the British public of the man at the heart of government who flagrantly broke lockdown rules. Keir Starmer not only highlighted the…
£37bn has been allocated to test and trace in England, yet there is no clear evidence that the system is effective at reducing coronavirus infection levels, a cross-party group of MPs has found. The House of Commons public accounts…
Labour is not going to oppose the personal allowances freeze in Rishi Sunak's Budget. The Chancellor has announced that the amount of money you can earn tax-free will rise from £12,500 to £12,570 in April as planned, but will then remain at…
Labour's Anneliese Dodds has used a Fabian Society event appearance about this week's Budget to warn that the UK Conservative government "shouldn’t be pinning all its hopes on a particular escape route from this crisis". The Shadow…
Labour has unveiled a new shortlist of two candidates who will now compete for selection by members to become the party’s Liverpool mayoral candidate. One is Joanne Anderson, no relation to Joe; the other is Anthony Levelle. Both were…
This busy Labour week kicked off with a court ruling that went in the party’s favour, at least on the face of it. The judge in Oldknow v Evans dismissed the disclosure order application of former senior party staffer Emilie Oldknow, who was…
Calls for a devolution have picked up pace over the last year. Demands for a new settlement have been heard from Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other Labour leaders across England, Wales and…
Should Labour side with right-wing Tories against a rise in corporation tax in the upcoming Budget? Lisa Nandy doubled down on the position in a BBC interview yesterday, saying “there will be a time for raising taxes, doing it fairly and…
Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon was all about money, money, money as the two party leaders clashed ahead of the Budget due next week. Keir Starmer emphasised many of the lines we saw in his speech on the economy last week…
