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British farmers are facing a perfect storm of uncertainty this Back British Farming Day. From reduced farm payments, to being undermined in new trade deals and worker shortages leading to supply chain issues, the farming sector badly needs…
Labour will force a vote on Universal Credit today. Jonathan Reynolds has appealed to Conservative MPs to back the motion, which opposes the government plan to cut the £20-per-week uplift introduced earlier in the pandemic. The Shadow Work…
We have disagreed fundamentally with one another for many years on Labour’s future direction, from who should be leader of the party to its stance on nuclear disarmament. But we agree on one crucial issue: the need for Labour to support a…
Keir Starmer has used his keynote speech at the Trades Union Congress conference today to announce that a Labour government would guarantee sick pay to all workers – and increase it. "We have one of the lowest rates of sick pay in Europe…
Keir Starmer will address the labour movement this morning. In his keynote speech at TUC Congress 2021, the opposition leader is set to declare that a future Labour government would deliver a “new deal for workers” to ensure that they are…
At least 144 constituency parties have called on Keir Starmer's Labour to endorse a switch to proportional representation this year – more than have made a single demand on any other issue in recent conference history. It is highly likely…
It looked as if Boris Johnson might be getting away with his regressive tax rise and thin ‘social care plan’ that is really an NHS backlog-clearing plan. The rushed vote largely quashed a potential rebellion of Tory MPs and polling had…
This was the Prime Minister’s moment. Never has social care been so prominent in the national conversation than the preceding few years. So much so, Boris Johnson used his last big moment, upon entering Number 10, to proudly proclaim on the…
MPs backed the health and social care levy last night. 319 voted in favour and 248 against. Any murmur of rebellion against the proposal, which will see National Insurance contributions rise by 1.25 percentage points, was squashed. Despite…
MPs have backed the health and social care levy, which will see National Insurance contributions rise by 1.25 percentage points to fund the NHS and changes to the social care system, by 319 votes to 248 this evening. Labour voted against…
