‘Public water, local power’
The clarion call of the Burnham premiership has been a blistering condemnation of decades in which the state…
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Tony Blair: a final act of leadership needed
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Miliband to tell TUC that party/union reforms are still going ahead
After yesterday’s developments in Falkirk – with Unite and their candidate being cleared of any wrongdoing – there…
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Five questions for Ed Miliband on Falkirk and party/union reform – and what the party is likely to say in response
The Labour Party has stated late this afternoon that “No organisation or individual has been found to have…
The government have been forced into a humiliating climb down on legal aid
What was witnessed yesterday in the House of Commons is nothing short of a humiliating climb down by…
