The schools dilemma facing councils as Covid cases rise ahead of Christmas
Covid cases are doubling every seven days in some areas and the situation is particularly bad in London…
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WATCH: “Doing nothing is not really viable,” says Starmer on Christmas rules
Keir Starmer has concluded that “doing nothing is not really viable” and “a responsible government is going to…
Labour slams Boris Johnson over “bumper bonus” for Dominic Cummings
Angela Rayner has criticised the Prime Minister for awarding Dominic Cummings a 40% “bumper bonus” pay rise despite…
Labour for the North: How Labour can rebuild the ‘Red Wall’ across the North
In the summer of 2019 Justin Madders, Peter Dowd and I formed the Labour for the North group…
Day care centres were a lifeline for my family. We must keep them open
My father arrived in the UK in the 1960s as part of a wave of Bengali immigration into…
Keir Starmer demands urgent review of Christmas Covid rules
Keir Starmer has demanded that the Prime Minister urgently convene an emergency COBRA meeting to review the current…
School closures row escalates as anxieties mount over Christmas bubbles
Bumping up London, along with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire, to Tier 3 could not wait until the…
Andy Burnham: Labour needs to become more enthusiastic about devolution
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has declared that the Labour Party “needs to become more enthusiastic about devolution”…
Fixing test and trace “fiercely urgent”, says Labour as new Covid variant found
Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth has emphasised the need to fix testing and tracing after Matt Hancock announced that a…
Petition for furlough national minimum wage floor reaches 11,000 signatures
A petition launched to stop workers from being paid less than the national minimum wage through the government’s…
