Bev Craig launches manifesto for Greater Manchester mayoral campaign
Labour’s Greater Manchester mayoral candidate Bev Craig sought to define her leadership as she launched her manifesto on…
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MPs back health and social care levy by 319 votes to 248
MPs have backed the health and social care levy, which will see National Insurance contributions rise by 1.25…
Could Labour conference really reject general secretary David Evans?
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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”
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Richard Leese to stand down as Manchester City Council leader
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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…
Universal Credit vote blocked as government scraps opposition day
Jacob Rees-Mogg has told parliament that an opposition day debate, in which Labour had been planning to force…
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…
Rachel Reeves attacks National Insurance hike as “unfair tax on jobs”
Labour’s Rachel Reeves attacked the proposal of an increase in National Insurance today by describing it to opposite…
