‘With budgets tight, Starmer is right to crackdown on quangos’
Today, the Prime Minister will make announcements to radically overhaul the State: chief among them a crackdown on…
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‘How the Employment Rights Bill will deliver higher wages and less stressful work’
Everyone should be able to earn to live a decent life, but that is not possible in the…
Welfare benefit cuts: ‘What’s the least bad way to find savings?’
Rachel Reeves is said to be on the verge of cutting billions of pounds from health-related benefits. But…
‘Employment Rights Bill must go further to reform disgraceful sick pay system’
At £116.75 a week – just 17% of the average weekly wage – the UK’s Statutory Sick Pay…
‘Let’s hike tax to spend even more on defence. Voters get the world’s changed’
Keir Starmer has rightly named the active threat Putin poses to the UK, our allies and peace in…
Dawn Butler: ‘Why we founded the Parliamentary Black Caucus’
Whether it is climate change, the rise of the far-right, the future of artificial intelligence, or the persistent…
IWD: ‘Politics isn’t focused on women’s needs or voices. We can fix it with more women councillors, MPs and mayors’
I’ve been in a reflective mood as we’ve approached this International Women’s Day. 263 women now serve in…
Spring Statement: ‘Austerity is not the answer to Britain’s stagnant economy’
All the signs are that Britain is heading for another round of austerity. The BBC has today reported…
‘The PM channels Attlee on defence. But a wealth tax, not aid cuts, should fund it’
Listening to Sir Keir Starmer explaining why standing up to Russian tyranny and bending over backward to get…
‘Labour activists cannot dismiss women’s concerns over single-sex spaces’
“No, I won’t be voting Labour. They don’t know what a woman is.” The door slams in my…
