‘Beyond the sticking plaster: why LVT is the key to Labour’s promise of high street renewal’
The Chancellor’s recent U-turn on the business rates hike for pubs and music venues has, understandably, been welcomed…
Business Rates
Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories
It was a busy week for the Labour government. While the prime minister visited China for talks with…
Firms say Labour gives high streets ‘hope’ but ‘does not have all the answers’
High street experts have welcomed Labour’s plans for the sector as bringing a “sense of hope” but expressed…
‘Labour must reverse council cuts and base funding on need, not local wealth’
As the saying goes, all politics is local. For all the spectacle and drama that Westminster politics brings,…
Labour launches plan to “revitalise” high streets after 13 years of Tory “failure”
Keir Starmer has declared that British businesses have been “held back by 13 years of Tory economic failure”…
Support “backbone” of British economy by buying local, Starmer urges public
Keir Starmer has called on the public to support small businesses by shopping locally and stressed the importance…
Labour ups focus on business as NEC appoints Liverpool officer for ‘clean up’
MPs from across the chamber paid tribute to David Amess yesterday. The late parliamentarian was described as not only a…
Labour to force vote on business rates cut as figures show 800,000 jobs at risk
Labour is expected to force a vote of MPs on cutting business rates after research from the party…
Rachel Reeves pledges £28bn per year investment in green transition
Rachel Reeves has told delegates at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Brighton that a Labour government would…
Businesses paying price for “reckless” borders approach, Labour says
Bridget Phillipson has declared that businesses are paying for the government’s “reckless and negligent approach to border controls”…
