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Today we celebrate the centenary of the passing of the Parliament Qualification Act, which laid the foundation for the first women being able to stand for parliament. It was a suffrage landmark. A hundred years on, we have to keep striving…
Under new plans put forward by Labour today, applicants for jobs in the civil service would no longer need academic qualifications unless genuinely relevant to the role. The move, which would downgrade the importance of A-Levels and…
Below is the full speech given by Angela Rayner, Shadow Education Secretary, at Labour conference 2018 today. Conference, we’re at our best when we work together. That is what we did when we stopped the Tories in their tracks last year…
Today Labour's education chief Angela Rayner will announce plans to "end the forced conversion of local schools to academies" and allow councils to take control of failing academies. Panorama’s recent ‘Profits before Pupils? The Academies…
Speaking at a conference fringe event today at Labour conference, Angela Rayner warned that the political class - including the her own party - is losing the trust of the working class. “I think they’re fed up with us all,” said the Shadow…
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Motions of no confidence moved by Labour members against their local MPs are hitting headlines again. After a long summer of arguing only on social media…
There is a story about President Kennedy visiting the NASA space centre in the 1960s. He met a man in janitor’s overalls, sweeping the floor of the corridor. “What do you do here?” he asked. “I send astronauts to the moon,” the man replied…
Another seismic Brexit vote promised, another disappointing outcome produced. In the run-up to yesterday afternoon, when the ping pong between the Commons and the Lords meant MPs were voting on the ‘meaningful vote’ proposal for a second…
There’s no sign of Carolyn Harris when I arrive at St Botolph’s church next to Aldgate station, but I head uncertainly towards a group of people who look like they’re ready to walk around East London for a couple of hours. I’m here because…
Janet Daby won the Lewisham East selection contest by a landslide. Most didn’t see this coming: the Left control the NEC, which controls the shortlist in a by-election, so the Corbynsceptic CLP executive expected a “stitch-up”. Last week, I…
GMB organiser Deanne Ferguson was chosen by local Labour members earlier this week to fight the key marginal seat of Morley and Outwood at the next election. The trade union regional organiser was supported by Unite, GMB, TSSA and other…
Today is Safer Internet Day and it could not come at a more important time. Last week, the NSPCC published Ten years since the Byron Review, an assessment of 38 recommendations made to the government in 2008 on how to keep children safe…
