Anas Sarwar: We need a Labour government to prevent another lost decade
This has been the lost decade of Scottish politics. We have an SNP government that is obsessed with the…
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Rachel Reeves: Tory tax changes and benefits freeze mean struggling families forced to fund new handout for the rich
The start of the new financial year today is when the rich get richer and the poor get…
Debbie Abrahams: This Autumn Statement did nothing to move Britain on from six wasted years of Tory austerity
There had been much made of the new chancellor’s supposed break from the austerity politics of his predecessor…
Rachel Reeves: PM and chancellor have betrayed the “jams” but plough on with a £1 billion handout for the wealthy
Philip Hammond has abandoned his boss’s now famous “jams” (just about managing) families in the worst of all…
Cut, cut and cut again, it could still have been Osborne – Kezia Dugdale on Hammond’s fresh round of austerity
This is the full response to the Autumn Statement issued today by Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale. We were…
End the “misery” of austerity and halt disability cuts- Dugdale letter to chancellor
Kezia Dugdale, leader of Scottish Labour, has sent an open letter to chancellor Philip Hammond demanding the Tories…
Richmond Park Labour: “Dog-whistle” Zac and his Lib Dem friends have supported every Tory attack on the poor
Having failed to stop the Government’s plans to expand Heathrow, Zac Goldsmith has thrown his toys out the pram.…
Conservatives failing to help the disabled into work, says Stephen Timms, author of Labour’s New Deal
In 1998, as a new minister, I took on responsibility for the New Deal for disabled people. We knew…
Tory disability campaigner quits party in protest at Osborne’s cuts
A Conservative disability campaigner has quit his role in disgust for the Tories’ cuts to disability benefits following…
The Work Programme – A bad deal for ESA
Another quarter of Work Programme data released today paints a similar picture to the last: reasonable job outcomes…
