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I announced in the Yorkshire Post last week that I am standing to be the mayor of West Yorkshire. I’m under no illusions at the size of the task ahead. Our candidate will need a campaign like no other. So many of our traditional tactics…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak last week told Conservative conference that the country faced “hard choices”, and committed the government to “balancing the books”. His words echoed those of George Osborne in 2010, who set the UK on a course of…
The House of Commons has tonight voted down a range of Labour-supported agriculture bill amendments that had sought to uphold British food and animal welfare standards in future trade deals. The amendments put forward by the House of Lords…
Keir Starmer has demanded that the Prime Minister "back British farmers" by supporting the Labour Party's plans to protect the UK from lower-standard food imports after the Brexit transition phase ends. The opposition party has argued that…
Boris Johnson kicked off his conference speech by saying it "isn’t enough just to go back to normal", but he went on to re-announce an awful lot of policy already promised pre-pandemic. The Prime Minister repeated his manifesto pledge to…
Keir Starmer has declared that the British public wants to see a "roadmap to get out of where we are now and to where we need to be" in the coronavirus crisis in response to a speech by the Prime Minister at Tory conference. Responding to…
Hopes of a radical change in national housing policy appeared to be dashed by the election of the Conservative government last year. However, the current crisis precipitated by the pandemic has opened up possibilities that would have seemed…
Angela Rayner has criticised the Prime Minister following his keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference today and argued that he delivered the "usual bluster and no plan for the months ahead". Boris Johnson used his remote address…
Labour's Ed Miliband has cast doubt on the Prime Minister's new announcement to power all UK homes with renewable wind power by 2030, saying that "Boris Johnson rarely delivers on his rhetoric". The Shadow Business Secretary said funding…
Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has called on the government to raise the minimum wage to £10 an hour for all UK workers regardless of age as a response to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The now backbench MP has…
