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This piece was originally published on LabourList in March 2013 to mark the ten-year anniversary of the vote to go to war in Iraq. Why did I do it? It wasn’t easy, not for me anyway. Ten years ago, it wasn’t fashionable in the parliamentary…
John McDonnell has said it is a "mistake" for Keir Starmer to prevent Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate after the Labour leader confirmed that his predecessor would not be allowed to stand for Labour at the next election. In…
John McDonnell has urged the leadership of the Labour Party to return the whip to Jeremy Corbyn arguing that "now is the time to have a united party". In a Sky News interview this morning, the former Shadow Chancellor described the removal…
John McDonnell has said it was a "severe mistake" by Keir Starmer's advisers to sack Sam Tarry as shadow transport minister and urged Labour to "come off the fence and be on the side of a just cause – the workers". Tarry was removed from…
The world's biggest four-day working week trial began in the UK on Monday. More than 3,300 workers across 70 companies are involved in the scheme, which will see participants work reduced hours with no loss of pay for a period of six…
“The vice is tightening on the Putin regime and will continue to tighten,” Boris Johnson declared at Prime Minister’s Questions. But are the oligarchs actually being sanctioned – or are they being given a substantial notice period in which…
John McDonnell will not be attending the Stop the War Coalition event being held this evening in London, LabourList can exclusively reveal, with the Labour MP declaring that "now is the time to unite". The Labour MP told LabourList he will…
Claudia Webbe, the independent MP for Leicester East who is suspended from the Labour Party, has been found guilty of threatening and harassing a woman. Responding to the news, a Labour Party spokesperson said: “The Labour Party strongly…
John McDonnell has declared that Labour "lacked credibility" in the 2019 general election as the party attempted to "throw everything, every policy we could" at the public – but pointed out that "every bugger wants free broadband now". The…
Forget revolving door – the door is wide open. A hole in the wall through which former and current ministers and political staff pass back and forth in pursuit of the shady romance between lobbyists and governments. Keir Starmer thoroughly…
Below is the full text of John McDonnell's House of Commons speech today at the second reading of the finance bill 2021. Budgets and their associated finance bills give practical meaning to the political aims of governments. Manifestos, the…
Boris Johnson has put the success of the UK’s vaccine rollout down to greed and capitalism. "The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends," he told a group of Tory backbenchers last night…
