Kezia Dugdale: Tory Brexit gamble has not paid off – and it has held back healing the divisions of the Scotland referendum
This is the full text of the speech by Kezia Dugdale, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, at…
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Planning a general election campaign and delivering the policies for Labour to win – Alice Perry’s latest NEC report
From Labour’s national executive committee awayday – 22 November 2016. Leader’s report One of the biggest Labour…
Debbie Abrahams: This Autumn Statement did nothing to move Britain on from six wasted years of Tory austerity
There had been much made of the new chancellor’s supposed break from the austerity politics of his predecessor…
Legal aid cuts put justice “beyond the reach of thousands”, Burgon warns
Tory spending cuts have put justice “beyond the reach of thousands”, a shadow cabinet minister says today as…
McDonnell: Jo Cox’s murder shows Britain needs a more “civilised” politics
The murder of Jo Cox should lead to a more “civilised” debate today, John McDonnell said, as he…
McDonnell pours the jam back on the Tories but Brexit and borrowing mean Autumn Statement is a serious day
These used to be spiteful and occasionally jokey affairs when Ed Balls and George Osborne slugged it out…
Cut, cut and cut again, it could still have been Osborne – Kezia Dugdale on Hammond’s fresh round of austerity
This is the full response to the Autumn Statement issued today by Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale. We were…
Sarah Champion: Today the Tories must admit they have forced women and the low paid to bear the brunt of austerity
In every single budget and autumn statement under this Conservative government, women have lost out. As of the…
Chi Onwurah: The chancellor must abandon the race to the bottom which puts Britain as a low corporate tax haven
On the eve of the Autumn Statement with lobbying and leaking in full swing, one thing is clear…
Ministers offering only false hope amid threat of local authority funding crisis, a Labour council leader writes
Joe Anderson has recently sounded an alarm that will echo across council chambers the length and breadth of…
