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Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Today is Theresa May’s birthday, but it’s Philip Hammond’s big day on the Conservative conference floor. This morning Tories will hear from the staggeringly…
John McDonnell will today announce plans to make employees part-owners of the private companies they work for - a scheme Labour say could make workers up to £500 a year better off. The Shadow Chancellor will use his keynote Labour…
The Labour Party is gearing up for one of its biggest and most diverse conferences in living memory. From this weekend, Liverpool will be buzzing with discussion about how Labour can shape the future of the country. At the centre of this…
What went down at TUC Conference? It was the 150th anniversary Congress of the TUC this week, taking place in Manchester – right where it all started in 1868. Among the hundreds of speeches and dozens of fringes, here are some of the most…
John McDonnell will call for an overhaul of workers’ rights in the gig economy at the Trades Union Congress conference today. Addressing TUC delegates in a keynote speech this afternoon, the Shadow Chancellor is expected to lay out plans…
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Party infighting once again dominated the weekend’s news, and bitter rows look set to intensify further in the run-up to party conferences. Parliamentary…
John McDonnell has launched a scathing attack on bankers as new evidence shows lenders are lowering standards for mortgages to keep offering deals. Responding to reports that banks willing to lend over 90% of the property value increased by…
John McDonnell has accused the Tory government of “putting the public in danger” in pursuit of an ideological belief in privatisation. The Shadow Chancellor has called on the government to immediately halt all further outsourcing of…
John McDonnell has announced that Labour may include a trial of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the next Labour Party Manifesto. UBI – state provision of unconditional monthly stipends to all adult citizens – has been justified on myriad…
One of the biggest issues with the universal basic income debate - recently reinvigorated by John McDonnell's announcement that the next Labour government would trial the scheme - is that nobody can agree on what the UBI should be for. For…
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell hit back at Benjamin Netanyahu last night after the Israeli Prime Minister criticised the Labour leader over the wreath-laying row. Netanyahu stated as fact that Corbyn had laid a wreath in tribute to one of…
John McDonnell has called for the launch of a new movement to fight back against racism and the rise of the far-right in the UK. With reference to Tommy Robinson supporters, the recent attack on a socialist bookshop and Boris Johnson's…
