Who is Olaf Scholz – and can Labour look to the SPD candidate as an ally?
Germany’s socialist party, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), last week chose its candidate to replace Angela Merkel as…
Inflation
Labour slams Tories for “making rail travel unaffordable”
Labour has warned that the Conservatives are “making rail travel unaffordable” as a 1.6% increase in rail fares…
Why Labour shouldn’t rule out Modern Monetary Theory
Jonathan Reynolds, in his LabourList article on Modern Monetary Theory, is right to say that this subject would…
The boom years model of growth was morally and practically bankrupt
In a context in which we have been long told that “we are all in it together”, to ask…
PMQs verdict: Police pay fiasco powers Corbyn to victory in marathon session
Theresa May has nothing left to offer apart from delivering Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn eyes a brighter future in…
Champion got it wrong in The Sun but she was standing up for some of the most vulnerable people in our society
Sarah Champion has done more to stand up for victims of child sex abuse than many other Labour…
Chuka Umunna: Tory austerity has failed – now a united Labour must see off May
Theresa May broke her promise and called this opportunistic general election to gain a personal mandate for her…
Corbyn vows to change the law to protect “triple lock” on pensioner incomes
Jeremy Corbyn today stepped up Labour’s pitch to pensioners by committing to pass a law to protect the “triple…
John McDonnell: We could not run an NHS worthy of the name under the bargain basement Britain planned by the Tories
This winter has pushed our national health service close to breaking point. Some areas are planning for a…
Dive in wages reveals Tories’ “abject failure”, says McDonnell
The fall in real wages over the next five years is a “damning indictment” of Tory economic failure,…
