Labour roundup: How should Starmer fight a net zero election?
Keir Starmer’s tweet this morning tells us as much about how net zero could frame the next election…
Cars
‘Labour must ignore scaremongering about the so-called war on the motorist’
In the month or so between the Uxbridge by-election and Monday’s expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ)…
Haigh: Ministers “too busy” infighting to deal with “profiteering” petrol retailers
Louise Haigh has accused ministers of being “too busy tearing themselves apart” to tackle the “shameless profiteering” of…
Unless we restrain car use, the post-Covid normal will be worse than before
In terms of transport, the new post-pandemic normal is looking worse than the old normal. Without a clear…
Labour slams Tories for “turning their back” on “levelling up” promise
Labour has condemned the Tories for “turning their back” on their “levelling up” pledge as data shows three…
Alison McGovern: We need to stop Tories capitulating to the hard-right over Brexit
Naturally I couldn’t help but enjoy watching the Tories running scared at their conference last week. They looked…
Denis MacShane: Labour should be very wary of Lexit – and fight to stay as the party of European social justice
The lure of staying out of Europe has been the most seductive of all the dead-end policies that…
Len McCluskey: The future of our great car industry must not be thrown into doubt because of UKIP and hard-right Tories
This is the full statement published by Unite general secretary Len McCluskey after figures from the Society of…
Dugher stokes row with Jeremy Clarkson, brands Top Gear presenter “an idiot”
Labour Shadow Transport Secretary Michael Dugher has become embroiled in a bizarre row with Jeremy Clarkson after saying…
Poor coordination, broken models: why even traffic is political
I am writing this column sitting in a traffic jam in Dhaka, the car-crammed capital city of Bangladesh.…
