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Rachel Reeves has warned that "people are worried sick about how they’ll pay their bills and do their weekly food shop" amid the cost-of-living crisis and that "all this Tory Prime Minister does is shrug his shoulders". Commenting after…
Gordon Brown has urged the Conservatives to take "the action that is necessary" to combat the cost-of-living crisis or to "make way for Keir Starmer", who the former Prime Minister said is "ready and waiting to do good things". In a Sky…
Gordon Brown, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford, all eight Labour metro mayors and more than 70 local authority leaders have warned Rishi Sunak that the country is facing "the worst cost-of-living crisis for half a century". In an open…
While everyone naturally enjoys the Prime Minister's meltdown, time and attention is being deflected away from serious alternatives to the mess that the Tories and the country are in. I keep thinking about New Labour, how it won and its…
Around the world, 200 million adults will soon be able to legally access medical assistance to die in certain circumstances. A form of assisted dying – a controversial topic at the intersection of ethics, medicine and law – will be…
Trevor Phillips on Sunday MPs paid tribute to Conservative MP David Amess, who was killed on Friday. Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy discussed the impact on MPs and called on politicians to "tone down the rhetoric". On safety measures…
What is radical federalism, what would it look like and should Labour champion it? This is what Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin, Welsh Labour's Mick Antoniw MS and Professor Nicola McEwen discussed this…
Trevor Phillips on Sunday Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy said the "broad principle" of TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady's demand for a wealth tax to fund social care reform is "absolutely right". She also criticised the setting of…
"New Labour, new Britain." In his closing speech to the 1994 Labour Party conference in Blackpool, Tony Blair hammered home the message that Labour had changed; the party had evolved to meet the needs of late 20th century Britain. The…
Labour did not have a good set of May 6th elections, though there were positive results, especially in Wales. Fierce discussion of the party’s performance continues. However, there is a history that is underlying the current problems, and…
Gordon Brown has joined more than 170 other former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates in signing an open letter calling on US President Joe Biden to support a waiver of intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines. The…
Keir Starmer will be hoping that this week is better than the last. Westminster commentators turned on the Labour leader, calling on him to up his game, show some leg in terms of vision and go beyond forensic criticisms of the government…
