Comment ‘With budgets tight, Starmer is right to crackdown on quangos’ Today, the Prime Minister will make announcements to radically overhaul the State: chief among them a crackdown on… Patrick King 13th March, 2025, 7:19 am
News Runcorn by-election: Disabled aspiring candidate slams opaque snap selection as Labour interviews potential MPs A disabled Labour councillor has criticised the party’s selection process in Runcorn and Helsby as too swift, opaque… Luke O'Reilly 12th March, 2025, 8:02 pm
News MP removes name from colleagues’ pro-welfare reform letter amid cuts backlash A Labour MP has distanced herself from a letter supporting reform of the welfare system she said her… Daniel Green 12th March, 2025, 2:46 pm
Comment ‘How the Employment Rights Bill will deliver higher wages and less stressful work’ Everyone should be able to earn to live a decent life, but that is not possible in the… Jeevun Sandher 11th March, 2025, 1:29 pm
Comment Welfare benefit cuts: ‘What’s the least bad way to find savings?’ Rachel Reeves is said to be on the verge of cutting billions of pounds from health-related benefits. But… Andrew Harrop 11th March, 2025, 9:26 am
News Labour longlists Runcorn candidates as Amesbury to quit, triggering by-election Labour is longlisting candidates this week for the looming Runcorn and Helsby by-election, which now looks almost certain… Tom Belger 10th March, 2025, 5:27 pm
Comment ‘Employment Rights Bill must go further to reform disgraceful sick pay system’ At £116.75 a week – just 17% of the average weekly wage – the UK’s Statutory Sick Pay… Imran Hussain 10th March, 2025, 1:43 pm
News Paddy Lillis on life after Usdaw, Keir Starmer, and the Employment Rights Bill Paddy Lillis is in a reflective mood. On one level it’s easy to understand his decision to step… Luke O'Reilly 10th March, 2025, 5:00 am
Comment ‘Let’s hike tax to spend even more on defence. Voters get the world’s changed’ Keir Starmer has rightly named the active threat Putin poses to the UK, our allies and peace in… Josh Constable 9th March, 2025, 7:00 am
Comment Dawn Butler: ‘Why we founded the Parliamentary Black Caucus’ Whether it is climate change, the rise of the far-right, the future of artificial intelligence, or the persistent… Dawn Butler 8th March, 2025, 6:00 am