WATCH: You can’t have community safety on the cheap – Labour’s new party political broadcast
Labour’s second party political broadcast released ahead of May’s local elections shows parents, youth workers and retired police…
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Joe Anderson: Liverpool fire shows Tories need a reality check
You may have seen the news reports over the Christmas break of the devastating car park fire in…
Bring public services back in-house, McDonnell tells local councils
Updated at 1.30pm. Today John McDonnell will call for an “urgent change of direction in local government funding”…
PMQs: May on trial as Corbyn attacks criminal Tory austerity
The Maybot delivers a stiff, repetitive performance, Tory MPs are in short supply on the sparse green benches,…
Sadiq Khan: Upcoming local elections are a referendum on Tory police cuts
The local elections this May will be a referendum on eight years of a Tory government that…
March for the NHS shows battle against PFI is only just warming up
Some 60,000 of us, including shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, took to the streets of London in the…
Neil Coyle: Remember what Tony Benn taught us – Labour needs two wings to fly
Pic: Tony Benn with Jon Lansman, later founder of Momentum, in the 1980s. The last few weeks have…
John Denham: Haringey is a factional battle – but NEC ruling reflects Labour’s long tradition of centralisation
The Labour national executive committee (NEC) intervention into Haringey, and the resignation of council leader Clare Kober, have…
Luke Akehurst: Momentum’s hubris carries the seeds of their own destruction
It’s only been two weeks since Momentum won a decisive extra three seats on Labour’s NEC but the…
Labour councils are reinventing municipal socialism and trying to hold back austerity
If we are to prepare for power nationally then we should do more to crowdsource solutions to modern…
