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We have a housing crisis in this country that can only be solved by local government building more. Labour’s 2017 manifesto promised to build 100,000 council homes to ‘rent or buy’. It called for a ‘pause’ to the right to buy, and to lift…
When we sat down to write our manifesto in Haringey, I started - and ended - thinking about women. That's my job as a women's officer, but it's also my job as a socialist and as a Labour candidate. When I think of Haringey, I think of all…
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference - my first, and the last before it fully amalgamates with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) to become the National Education Union (NEU) - was an eye-opener. The motion I wanted…
Over the Easter weekend, the GMB celebrated its birthday. On a bright Sunday morning 129 years ago, workers led by Will Thorne came together to form the forerunner of the GMB, the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers. The…
Last week Jack Dromey described the hostile takeover of GKN by Melrose as "a bleak day for British industry". A bleak day too for the 250 workers at the Redditch headquarters of GKN, and nearly 6,000 workers in the UK of 59,000 GKN…
The Labour NEC met on 20th March. The main item of business was to elect a new general secretary. There were also updates about the 2018 local elections and the usual reports and agenda items. Thanking Iain McNicol Jeremy Corbyn and the NEC…
20 years ago, Parliament was debating the Scotland Bill. Within months, both Wales and Scotland were well on the way to their own elected governments. From then onwards, England’s education, health, social care, bus, environment and…
Parliamentary staffer Charlotte Cornell has been selected by local Labour members to fight key marginal seat Dover at the next election. The former teacher, now chief of staff for Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield, was backed by John Healey…
At the general election last May, Jeremy Corbyn and Angela Rayner rightly committed to a manifesto pledge for all primary school children to receive free school meals under a Labour government. Theresa May’s plan to replace free school…
Universal Basic Income is a concept that has been growing dramatically in popularity within certain circles in Britain’s political landscape. John McDonnell is leading the campaign for the idea within Labour, while outside our party some…
