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The Andrew Marr Show Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy said Labour would not vote down the government's Covid measures for the North of England as some restrictions are needed, but slammed the Prime Minister for having "gone missing"…
Trade union leaders have issued a challenge to Labour by telling the party to "be bold and embrace" its 2017 and 2019 manifesto policies, advocate for a pay rise for key workers and be "much more vocal" on Covid support for workers. In an…
Labour has called on the government to "adopt a more flexible approach" or risk unemployment skyrocketing after new figures showed that almost 700,000 jobs have been lost since the UK went into lockdown in March. The latest estimates…
Several of Keir Starmer's Labour frontbench MPs have joined Labour Friends of Israel as newly appointed vice-chairs of the organisation that now includes a third of shadow cabinet members. LFI has announced six new vice-chairs as follows…
Labour has declared that the government still needs to answer “basic questions” about its newly launched £2bn 'kickstart' scheme for young people in an urgent parliamentary question on Thursday morning. Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary…
Jonathan Reynolds, Labour's work and pensions spokesperson, has promised that "there will be no return" by him to the 'undeserving poor' rhetoric used by George Osborne when talking about the social security system. In an interview with…
Labour's Jonathan Reynolds has called for a "fuller investigation" into the government's handling of care homes in the coronavirus crisis following the publication of the public accounts committee report. In an interview with Sky News this…
Join us at 6pm on Wednesday, July 29th, for our latest “In conversation with…” online event featuring LabourList editor Sienna Rodgers and Labour’s Shadow Secretary for Work and Pensions Jonathan Reynolds. If readers have suggestions for…
The Andrew Marr Show Ed Miliband, former Labour leader and now Shadow Business Secretary, defended the decision to sack Rebecca Long-Bailey and said Keir Starmer is “already” a better Labour leader than he was. He confirmed that Labour…
For two elections in a row, the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn failed on social security: independent think tanks found that neither the 2017 nor 2019 manifestos would have reduced child poverty. On benefits reform, people from across the…
When the Public Health England report on disparities in the risks and outcomes of Covid-19 was belatedly published this week, it confirmed that Black and Asian people are twice as likely to die from coronavirus than white people. It also…
Jonathan Reynolds has said that coronavirus testing in the UK is "nowhere near on track", and stressed that mass testing will be a "viable means" for the country to exit lockdown. In an interview with Sky News this morning, the Shadow Work…
