‘Long Covid’, NHS pride and casework: Labour MPs recovering from coronavirus
Andrew Gwynne “I’ve had some pretty horrid days over the past 17 weeks, but the last couple of…
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Tory faith in the private sector is proving calamitous – Ashworth’s Covid-19 update
It’s been a calamitous week for the government and its supposedly “world-beating” test and trace system. First, we…
The labour movement divides in its response to easing of restrictions
The Prime Minister has confirmed that pubs, cafes, restaurants, hotels, cinemas, museums, hairdressers and places of worship will…
Labour calls for transparency as coronavirus restrictions ease further
Many of us assumed that the coronavirus ‘lockdown’ here, always a relatively light touch one, would be lifted…
How zoos epitomise the government’s chaotic approach to Covid
You wouldn’t normally consider zoos to be at the heart of political debate but their treatment epitomises the…
Patient care standards have collapsed. It’s time to end NHS austerity – Ashworth’s Covid-19 update
Boris Johnson boasts that the NHS is coping through the coronavirus crisis. But it is only coping on…
WATCH: Minister agrees you can ‘stick care home deaths on scientists’
Government health minister Helen Whately agreed in an interview this morning that Covid-19 care home deaths can be…
The school meal voucher scheme must continue over the summer holidays
There was a dire, unacceptable food poverty emergency even before the Covid-19 pandemic. Now coronavirus and its economic…
We need a funded coronavirus inequalities plan – Ashworth’s Covid-19 update
As the brutal racist and sickening killing of George Floyd reverberates around the world, we stand in solidarity…
Scotland’s care workers deserve better
The sombre evidence that has stacked up over the last ten weeks reveals that the social care sector…
