News Council set to buy 300 ex-council homes for refugees and other homeless families A Labour-run council in London is set to purchase more than 300 former council homes, in a move… Katie Neame 17th October, 2023, 11:56 am
Comment 6 lessons for CLPs on ethnic minority representation in local government Many have already explained the need for Labour to increase ethnic minority representations across key positions in our… Praful Nargund 7th June, 2021, 12:13 pm
Comment How Islington has been working with the TUC to keep workers safe The government’s laissez-faire easing of lockdown restrictions has truly shown whose side it is on – profit over… Asima Shaikh, Matt Nathan & Sue Lukes 3rd July, 2020, 2:30 pm
Comment How we’re doing Corbynomics – in Jeremy Corbyn’s own backyard The next Labour government is already committed to creating inclusive and socially just local economies. And Jeremy Corbyn’s… Asima Shaikh 8th July, 2019, 8:00 am
Comment At Islington Council, we’re proud to welcome 100 more unaccompanied child refugees This year is the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, the scheme that welcomed 10,000 child refugees to Britain… Kaya Comer-Schwartz & Sue Lukes 22nd November, 2018, 2:00 pm
Comment Whitehall won’t be ready. But councils can’t wait to deliver Labour’s radical manifesto Nowhere is Labour’s pledge to end austerity and pursue radical and transformative policies welcomed more enthusiastically than in… Richard Watts 7th August, 2018, 9:31 am
Comment Our council shows top football clubs and rest of society how to pay the living wage Everyone deserves to earn enough to live on, not just survive. Unfortunately, too many people across the country… Andy Hull 8th November, 2017, 4:28 pm
Comment Has a Labour council banned pork in schools? Er, no You may have seen the utterly nonsense story doing the rounds today that Islington Council has banned pork… Richard Watts 12th February, 2015, 6:32 pm