Kezia Dugdale: “The Labour party I lead will never support independence”
Scotland still “bears the scars” of the last independence referendum and Scottish Labour will resist all attempts to…
Child Poverty
Dugdale: Scottish Labour will oppose a divisive second independence referendum
This is the full text of Kezia Dugdale’s keynote speech to Scottish Labour conference Chair, conference, friends, Thank…
Dan Jarvis: Poverty destroys childhoods – it is our mission to defeat it
Poverty is woven into the history of the Labour Party. Its eradication has long been central to our…
Where you grow up shouldn’t determine where you end up – Dan Jarvis on his campaign to tackle child poverty
This is the video published by Dan Jarvis after he visited a Sure Start centre in his Barnsley…
Dan Jarvis: The privilege of public service demands we tackle child poverty
How can we achieve our full potential as a country, when one in four children are held back…
Mary Creagh: The Brexit debate should not distract us from using the Global Goals to tackle hunger, poverty and disease
Last year, the UK came together with 193 countries and agreed 17 ambitious sustainable development goals. The Global…
Some of the “worst slum conditions in the country… but we just called it home” – McDonnell returns to his native Liverpool
John McDonnell has returned to the street in which he grew up in the 1950s. The road in…
As bad as George Osborne, but with worse jokes – McDonnell on Hammond’s speech
This is the full response by John McDonnell, the shadow Chancellor, to the speech by opposite number Philip…
UK to see “crisis of living standards” without overhaul of social security, new report finds
The UK is set to see a sharp rise in child poverty, worsening circumstances for low-income families and…
5 Tory climbdowns Labour has forced in recent weeks
The Tories’ suffered defeat over Sunday trading hours yesterday – another episode in a series of recent failures…
