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Jess Phillips has declared that Labour's controversial attack ad on Rishi Sunak is "not hard enough" and that she would have "gladly" defended it, while demanding that ministers "own" the fact that they have "broken" the justice system…
If you were a Labour member hoping for a quiet Easter weekend on the politics front, I am willing to bet that this weekend was very much not what you were bargaining for. On Thursday, Labour released the first of a series of attack ads…
The first in a series of controversial Labour attack ads on Rishi Sunak over the Conservatives' record on crime has now been seen more than 21 million times. The party's first advert, which alleges the prime minister "doesn't believe"…
Keir Starmer is out and about in Scunthorpe today in his latest excursion in the run-up to the local elections in May. Speaking ahead of a meeting with charities supporting victims of violence against women and girls, the Labour leader…
Keir Starmer has condemned the state of the criminal justice system under the Tories as a "stain on our country" after analysis found that the number of rape survivors dropping their case has more than doubled since 2015. Speaking today…
Is it ever not crime week these days? Yvette Cooper has declared that vandals are "getting away scot-free" under the Tories, citing new analysis from Labour that found that the charge rate for criminal damage has fallen by almost half over…
Over the weekend, the centre-left group Labour Together released a report titled Red Shift, laying out a strategy for how Labour can win the next election, the findings of which, the Guardian reports, were briefed to national campaign…
For many months, the government has conflated tackling modern slavery with issues of people-smuggling and immigration. Some of us feel a sense of déjà vu with the new illegal migration bill. We’ve been here before with the Nationality and…
Today is Betty Boothroyd's funeral, and with both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer attending, Prime Minister's Questions was a showdown between deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, and deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner. Alluding to Raab's…
Yvette Cooper has denounced the Tories' antisocial behaviour action plan as "too little and too late" after the government announced a "crackdown" that it said would establish a "zero-tolerance approach to all forms of antisocial…
"Fighting crime is a Labour cause," Keir Starmer declared in a speech setting out the second of the 'missions' that will form the basis of Labour's manifesto. The Labour leader told an audience in Stoke-on-Trent on Thursday: "Whatever the…
Below is the full text of Labour leader Keir Starmer's speech this morning on the party's 'mission' to tackle crime. It’s good to be here in Burslem, the “mother town” of the Potteries. Where the spades first hit the ground in the…
