World Suicide Prevention Day: How Labour should approach prison suicide
Trigger warning: this piece discusses suicide. Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. Since first being affected by suicide…
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Social care: the Prime Minister’s big moment that never was
This was the Prime Minister’s moment. Never has social care been so prominent in the national conversation than…
Dissatisfaction with Tory care proposals provide an opportunity for Labour
MPs backed the health and social care levy last night. 319 voted in favour and 248 against. Any murmur of…
Could Labour conference really reject general secretary David Evans?
The Unite the Union executive committee has voted in favour of refusing to approve Labour general secretary David…
Reeves on levy: “Unfair, job taxing, manifesto-shredding, tax bombshell”
Below is the full text of the speech by Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves explaining why Labour will vote…
PMQs: Starmer accuses Johnson of “hammering working people”
Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson met today following the unveiling of the Prime Minister’s long-awaited social care ‘plan’.…
Boris Johnson kicks the can down the road with barely-there social care plan
Labour’s opposition day, with a planned vote on Universal Credit, is cancelled. Instead of debating whether the worst-off in…
Patient care, not private profit. How we want to amend the health and care bill
73 years ago, a Labour government created the National Health Service. Its introduction transformed lives, giving access to…
Starmer on levy: “We need to ask those with broadest shoulders to pay more”
Below is the full text of Keir Starmer’s response in the House of Commons to the government statement…
Relationship and sex education is key to preventing sex abuse between children
It’s a sad reality that peer-on-peer sex abuse is on the increase amongst children. New figures published by…
