PMQs: Starmer attacked – but PM undermined by his own record
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions saw Keir Starmer try to steer the conversation towards rising child poverty and local…
Child Poverty
My priorities as Labour’s new Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary
I know that, after the NHS, the Department for Work and Pensions is the part of government many…
Scottish Labour reveals 10-point plan to end child poverty
Scottish Labour has unveiled a ten-point plan to end child poverty through structural change – aiming to “tackle…
Seema Malhotra: This Tory economy is not for everyone, but for the chosen few
Delivering the autumn budget, the Chancellor last week described the UK economy as one that was “working for everyone”.…
Poverty keeps growing – and the Tories are still in denial
The last eight years of policy have been a lesson in how to create the perfect conditions for…
Jon Trickett: How Labour is preparing for government
The Shadow Cabinet, acting on Jeremy Corbyn’s suggestion, has requested that I begin work to help prepare the…
Dan Jarvis: Smearing benefit claimants as “scroungers” harms fight against poverty
January is not just a time for sober reflection; it is also a time for clarity and determination,…
Tory universal credit plans could spell disaster for free school meals
Poverty is not an inevitability of our society. It comes about because of poor action by Government and…
Scottish Labour urges the SNP to work with them to stop growing child poverty
There must be an increase in child benefit to stop the sky rocketing levels of child poverty, Kezia…
Class divide has not gone away – Labour must use education to lift all children
It is becoming blatantly clear that social class and not gender or race determine how well a child…
