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Below is the full text of the speech by Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves explaining why Labour will vote against the National Insurance rise. There are two tests for the package announced yesterday. The first: does it fix social care? The…
Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson met today following the unveiling of the Prime Minister's long-awaited social care 'plan'. Under the proposals, on which MPs will vote tonight, those with assets amounting to below £20,000 will pay nothing for…
Labour’s opposition day, with a planned vote on Universal Credit, is cancelled. Instead of debating whether the worst-off in the country, many of whom are in work, should have their support cut by £20 a week, Boris Johnson is bouncing MPs…
Jacob Rees-Mogg has told parliament that an opposition day debate, in which Labour had been planning to force a vote on a cut to Universal Credit, will not take place so that MPs can vote on the plan to raise National Insurance instead. The…
Labour's Rachel Reeves attacked the proposal of an increase in National Insurance today by describing it to opposite number Rishi Sunak as a "manifesto-breaking, economically damaging and unfair tax on jobs". Keir Starmer joined the…
Boris Johnson will today unveil his social care plan, or at least the plan to fund the plan. It comes 776 days after he stood on the steps of Downing Street, having just become Prime Minister, and told the public he already had a "clear…
As parliamentary summer recess ends, MPs return to Westminster – and LabourList returns to your inbox every weekday morning. Top of the agenda at the start of this very busy week is social care: how to pay for it, how to fix it. As we all…
Jonathan Reynolds has not ruled out the possibility of Labour supporting a rise in the rate of National Insurance in order to fund the government's plans for social care – but has warned that the party wants to see a "fair tax rise". In an…
Labour Party conference 2021 is fast approaching. Members will gather in Brighton between September 25th and 29th for the annual meeting, the first physical one since Keir Starmer became leader. Each local party, affiliated trade union and…
The TUC has called on the government to create four additional bank holidays, highlighting that people in some countries enjoy twice as many days as the "stingy" entitlement afforded to workers in England and Wales. Commenting on the final…
