‘Labour has shown commitment to reach net zero, but must increase ambition’
Clean energy remains one of the Labour government’s defining ‘missions’ and held an important place in their packed…
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Israel-Gaza war: ‘The four steps Labour can take to push for a lasting peace’
As the tragic conflict in Israel and Palestine enters its thirteenth month, the Labour government is rightly focused…
‘Soaring attacks on staff show a broken prison system. Labour needs a strategy’
Many of us will have watched the unfolding picture with interest as inmates have been leaving prisons through…
‘The Budget ends austerity. But without reform, voters will ask where cash went’
She did it. Despite apparently being boxed into a corner, the Chancellor has managed to find a staggering…
Budget 2024: ‘How Rachel Reeves will turn the page on the Tories’ economic illiteracy’
As Rachel Reeves delivers the first Labour Budget in nearly fifteen years today, she will demonstrate what Labour…
Budget bus fare row: ‘The £2 cap was a rare policy that dramatically improves lives – it’s so cheap people talk about it’
Keir Starmer is missing the point of the £2 bus fare. He’s failing to recognise that investment in…
‘How Labour councils can help Starmer and Reeves deliver their growth mission’
Economic growth is at the heart of our new government’s agenda, and rightly so. For too long we…
Sam White: ‘Budget 2024 leaves Reeves facing nine circles of fiscal hell’
In the ‘Divine Comedy’, Dante tells the story of the hero being led through the Nine Circles of…
‘Why legalising assisted dying would create a “two-tier” system in our NHS’
As the Second Reading of my colleague Kim Leadbeater MP’s Private Members’ Bill on assisted dying approaches, I…
‘Wealth inequality threatens all of us – what can Labour do about it in the Budget?’
Periods of egalitarianism are the exception and not the rule in British history. Throughout its long and storied…
