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For two years, I’ve co-chaired the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs after re-forming it with Richard Burgon in May 2018. This week I stand down as co-chair, but I'm proud of the group that we rebuilt together. When Tony Blair resigned…
Labour’s new deputy leader Angela Rayner has unveiled a fresh set of appointments that make up her own team. The aim is for Marsha de Cordova, Kim Johnson, Nav Mishra, Tulip Siddiq and Sam Tarry to help Rayner “transform the culture and…
The tone of our debate over the government’s coronavirus response has again shifted further towards criticism becoming more ‘acceptable’. There has been a sense among many that it is inappropriate to highlight the myriad failures during a…
John McDonnell has called for the leaked Labour antisemitism report to be given to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, which is currently investigating the party. In an interview with Sky News, the former Shadow Chancellor stressed…
Covid-19 has exposed the dysfunction at the heart of the British state after a decade of austerity. That dysfunction has been combined with an extreme right-wing ideology, meaning that we have a government utterly incapable of carrying out…
Labour’s leadership elections have finally come to a close, and the results will be announced tomorrow morning via... a press release. Perhaps a fitting end to a remarkably dull contest, which is unfortunately set to conclude amid a…
Comedy event holder Stand Up for Labour has relaunched its operation in response to coronavirus lockdown measures with a new online show called "Stay Home for Labour" to raise morale amid the pandemic. Held twice a week and delivered using…
When I first moved to Britain in 2014, I had a very rose-tinted vision of the country I was about to make my home. Cosmopolitan and progressive, comfortable in its role as a global cultural leader, the image of “Cool Britannia” popularised…
“I did everything I possibly could to win both elections,” Jeremy Corbyn has told the BBC. “I was denounced as somebody that wanted to spend more money than we could possibly afford… I didn’t think that it would take only three months for…
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell yesterday delivered their final speeches in the House of Commons as Labour leader and Shadow Chancellor respectively. Naturally, both statements were centred on the coronavirus crisis and our handling of it…
Below is the full text of John McDonnell's final speech in the House of Commons as Shadow Chancellor, which he delivered in the 'financial and social emergency support' coronavirus debate. On Monday, the Prime Minister ordered a 21-day…
Mr Speaker, let me start by as assuring the Chancellor that the official opposition will be supportive of the government and constructively critical where necessary. This is the gravest crisis facing our country that any of us in this House…
