Comment Councils have kept people safe. Where is the promised support from government? At the start of the pandemic, the government called for councils to do “whatever it takes” and promised… Richard Watts 5th February, 2021, 8:15 am
Comment Care about your community and want to make a difference? Become a councillor Labour may be out of government in Westminster, but we are in power in Wales, and in hundreds… Alice Perry 8th February, 2020, 5:10 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 community energy company is rolling back privatisation – and we even signed up Jeremy Corbyn as a customer Robin Hood Energy is the first, not-for-profit energy company set up by a local authority since 1948 when… Steve Battlemuch 2nd February, 2018, 7:00 am
News Labour’s anger over “unfair and undemocratic” boundary review which would abolish Corbyn’s seat A key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has condemned plans to cut the number of MPs and redraw the… Peter Edwards 17th October, 2017, 9:21 am
Comment The brave and brilliant Labour MPs who could fulfil Harman’s dream and be the party’s first female leader Harriet Harman’s revelations that she believes she would have beaten Ed Miliband in the 2010 leadership campaign was a… Emma Bean 25th August, 2017, 7:00 am
News Labour will win from the centre-ground, Corbyn tells cheering supporters Labour occupies the new centre ground of British politics, Jeremy Corbyn claimed last night, as he addressed a… Peter Edwards 8th June, 2017, 9:29 am
Comment Free schools meals pledge is truly Labour and will help pupils in mind and body Children from every background, we repeat, every background are expected to benefit from Labour’s universal free school meal… 7th April, 2017, 2:00 pm
Comment This ideological plan for more academies is as bad as Lansley’s NHS reforms It is astonishing that, at a time of major cuts to school budgets, the Government would think it… Richard Watts 16th March, 2016, 5:00 pm
Comment A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work By Liz Kendall and Richard Watts Entrusting the care of a loved one to a paid professional can… 4th November, 2014, 10:17 am