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Warwick and Leamington MP Matt Western is being promoted to the post of shadow universities minister in Labour's education team as Emma Hardy has stepped down, LabourList can reveal. Hardy, a former teacher and education union staffer, was…
“People say to me, do you get nervous? But the thing that lets me do my job so effectively is because I'm not doing it for me. I'm advocating on behalf of somebody else, so that empowers me. I feel like I'm really empowered as the deputy…
The shielding list in England is growing: 1.7 million people are being added to the 2.3 million already classed as clinically extremely vulnerable, which means almost four million will be advised to avoid going to the shops or to a pharmacy…
Angela Rayner is urging the government to increase pay for care workers to at least £10 an hour as she says poverty wages in the care sector are not just "morally wrong" but also "holding back our economy". In a keynote speech at UNISON…
Labour has demanded that the government disclose details of meetings between companies and government ministers, MPs and special advisers concerning £2bn of contracts handed out over the course of the pandemic. Following a judicial hearing…
Labour has called on the Prime Minister to intervene and take urgent action against Conservative MP Desmond Swayne after he defended his previous endorsement of anti-vaccination campaigners and spreading of Covid misinformation. Commenting…
After criticising Keir Starmer during Prime Minister's Questions by telling MPs that the Labour leader "won't even say this morning that schools are safe", Boris Johnson gave his own statement telling people the earliest schools can safely…
Angela Rayner has demanded that the Conservative Party apologise after Labour's lawyers wrote to the director of public prosecutions alleging that Tory London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey used fraud to influence the upcoming election. The…
Angela Rayner is set to call for the upcoming local and mayoral elections to go ahead as planned on May 6th despite coronavirus – and she will warn the ruling Conservative Party against fixing a new date to gain political advantage…
Keir Starmer has described the images of inadequate free school meal packages circulating on social media as a "disgrace" and called on the government to take action to make sure that "families don't go hungry in the lockdown". The Labour…
Angela Rayner has called on employers to support the effort to immunise the population in the fight against Covid by giving workers paid time off to attend – and escort vulnerable family members to – vaccination appointments. In a letter to…
Labour's Angela Rayner has written to Conservative chair Amanda Milling demanding action against Tories who made comments relating to the violent scenes seen at the US Capitol yesterday. The opposition party deputy leader has highlighted…
