Keir Starmer faces calls to shift position on tax rises ahead of Budget
Keir Starmer is facing pressure to shift his party’s position on tax rises ahead of the Budget. During…
High Streets
Dodds unveils Labour plan to secure post-Covid future of British high streets
Anneliese Dodds is set to unveil Labour’s plan to secure the post-Covid future of British high streets with…
Usdaw: “Longer opening hours will not fix the crisis on our high streets”
Shopworkers’ union Usdaw has warned that “longer opening hours will not fix the crisis on our high streets”…
Labour: M&S job losses tell “bigger story about the threat to our high streets”
Labour has declared that the job cuts announced by high street giant Marks & Spencer “tell a much…
Together let’s celebrate small businesses and rejuvenate our high streets
Two years ago, as I sat on a bus in my Streatham constituency glancing through twitter updates on…
10 things the Government can do to help the high street
As new high streets minister Penny Mordaunt plans to embark on a national town centre tour, Labour’s high…
Our high streets are a more reliable measure of the economy than economists’ forecasts
On the face of it, the latest GDP figures look promising. And the recent poll of over 50…
The culture of high risk credit is being exploited by betting shops
Since the financial crisis, the perfect storm of recession and banks restricting access to credit has led to…
Helping our High Streets
Today one in seven of Britain’s shops lie empty. In some places it is as many as one…
Miliband announces plans for Legal Loan Shark crackdown
The local election campaign kicks off today, and Ed Miliband will use it as an opportunity to roll…
