“No plan to fix the housing crisis” – John Healey on Tory affordable homes pledge
This is the full response issued by John Healey, shadow secretary of state for housing, after the government…
Autumn Statement
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…
The Tories’ two per cent top-up is a pathetic sticking plaster for the social care crisis, a Labour councillor writes
The situation facing adult social care has reached the status of national emergency. Some might claim that is…
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…
Chris Leslie: May must delay article 50 and tackle Britain’s economic problems
A leading Labour backbencher has demanded Theresa May delay the triggering of the formal measure to leave the…
End the “misery” of austerity and halt disability cuts- Dugdale letter to chancellor
Kezia Dugdale, leader of Scottish Labour, has sent an open letter to chancellor Philip Hammond demanding the Tories…
Shabana Mahmood: After years of complacency it’s time the chancellor tackled Tory failures on welfare and skills
The Autumn Statement this year will be the first fiscal event following the Brexit referendum result and the…
Reeves and Leslie among Labour backbenchers demanding chancellor tackle inequality in Brexit Britain
A group of former shadow cabinet ministers have come together to set out their own stance on the…
McCluskey: Steel industry in crisis – Tories must set out plan to boost manufacturing
Len McCluskey gave a resounding welcome to Clive Lewis’s speech on Labour’s business strategy. Highlighting the lack of…
