John Spellar: City short-termism cons the taxpayer and is bad for British business
Carillion’s collapse shows the need for strong regulators to prevent unsustainable businesses from leeching off taxpayer, writes John…
John Spellar
The Labour Brexit rebels
Abstained Caroline Flint Rosie Winterton John Spellar Ian Austin Kevin Barron Yvonne Fovargue Helen Jones Kevan Jones Ged…
Momentum trying to “storm” Labour conference, MP tells centre-left activists
Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn are trying to “storm” Labour conference, a backbench MP told a group of centre-left…
Corbyn speaks out on Venezuala — to condemn violence carried out “by all sides”
Jeremy Corbyn has broken his silence on the Venezuela crisis by condemning the violence carried out “by all…
Voting in Unite contest enters final week as tensions rise between candidates
Voting closes in seven days’ time in the race to be Unite’s next general secretary. Len McCluskey, the…
McCluskey accuses Labour MPs of “dark arts” and says Unite election has become a “proxy war against Corbyn”
Len McCluskey has accused a small group of centre-left Labour MPs of engaging in the “dark arts” in…
PMQs verdict: A precursor to the main event – the triggering of article 50
“Sitting on the front bench, smirking at the British public.” That was Tulip Siddiq’s description of Boris Johnson,…
Spellar: The Tory right are not hostile to the NHS because it fails, but because it works
Owen Patterson’s call to “break the consensus surrounding the NHS”, in his recent speech at his own think-tank…
John Spellar: The people have spoken. They don’t want electoral reform
It always amazes me that at every moment of political uncertainty someone always decides to bring up the…
We can’t return to Labour’s Civil War years: we shouldn’t make it easier to get rid of Labour leaders
I am becoming more than a little disturbed at the rising clamour for a so-called break clause in…
