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Labour leader Keir Starmer, deputy Angela Rayner and trade union leader Frances O'Grady have written to party and Trades Union Congress members urging them to volunteer in the coronavirus vaccination effort. In a message sent this morning…
Labour party chair and deputy leader Angela Rayner has used her Christmas message released today to thank "all of our key workers who have kept us safe and kept our country going" during the coronavirus pandemic. Reflecting on the…
Angela Rayner has said Boris Johnson and his government should be "ashamed of themselves" for letting children go hungry after Jacob Rees-Mogg claimed that the intervention in the UK by Unicef is a "political stunt". The UN agency announced…
The Labour Party has published the action plan for tackling antisemitism within its ranks after securing approval from the Equality and Human Rights Commission that earlier this year found it responsible for unlawful acts. The…
Angela Rayner has demanded that the Conservative Party launch an investigation into a newsletter circulated by the Wellingborough Conservative Association urging its members to 'weaponise' fake news. In a letter to Amanda Milling, Labour's…
Angela Rayner has criticised the Prime Minister for awarding Dominic Cummings a 40% "bumper bonus" pay rise despite his rule-breaking and while implementing a real-terms pay cut for millions of public sector workers. Reacting to the release…
Keir Starmer went virtual at Prime Minister's Questions this week. He is self-isolating and – instead of deputy Angela Rayner stepping up as she did last time – he arranged a video link. That was the first big difference. The other was that…
Keir Starmer and David Evans have pledged to "close the gap" between the Labour leadership and the party's councillors in an effort to decentralise power and support those representatives on the frontline in local government. In an online…
Keir Starmer has warned that the government “must intervene” to resolve the dispute over a proposed cut of 350 UK jobs at Rolls-Royce and expressed "solidarity" with the workers currently on strike at the engineering firm. The Labour leader…
The five local party representatives on Labour's ruling body who were recently elected with the support of Momentum have urged Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner to speak out over a deportation flight set to take place tomorrow. Nadia Jama…
To what extent do local Labour parties need to be constricted in the wake of the Equality and Human Rights Commission report on antisemitism? This is the question many activists are now discussing. The EHRC did not find the party to be…
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has called on members to "get real" about antisemitism within the party and warned that "thousands and thousands" could be suspended if they fail to do so. Addressing the Jewish Labour Movement one-day…
