Commons votes for second Covid lockdown by 516 votes to 38
The government’s proposed new lockdown measures for England have been approved by the House of Commons with MPs…
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PMQs: A deadline for Johnson. Fix test and trace by the end of lockdown
Keir Starmer laid out the stark human cost of the delay in introducing a lockdown in Prime Minister’s…
“It ain’t over till every vote is counted”: US election proves closer than expected
If you were hoping to wake up this morning to a ‘blue wave’ in the 2020 US election…
Labour backs our British farmers
There is a lot happening in parliament today. While the vote on the second national lockdown for England…
Dodds slams Tories as government “stumbles from one crisis to the next”
Anneliese Dodds has declared that the government “stumbles from one crisis to the next” following last-minute announcements by…
Welsh MPs criticise “one rule for South of England and another for rest of UK”
Welsh Labour MPs have criticised the Prime Minister in the House of Commons for extending the furlough scheme…
“Child poverty is a pandemic of its own” – Kate Green’s free school meals speech
Below is the full text of the speech delivered to the House of Commons by Shadow Education Secretary…
Ashworth asks: “how many more deaths” before government adopts circuit break?
Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth has called on the government to adopt a national ‘circuit-break’ lockdown and asked the Health…
MPs reject Labour motion to put test and trace in hands of public health teams
The House of Commons has voted down a Labour motion that called on the government to drop private…
23 Labour MPs vote against 10pm Covid rule after being given free vote
23 Labour MPs have voted against the government’s 10pm hospitality curfew as the legislation was passed in the…
