Budget 2025: What were the key measures announced by the Chancellor?
Rachel Reeves has now delivered the 2025 Budget, but thanks to a leak of the OBR report, we…
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‘Why COP30 mattered – and why Labour MPs needed to be there’
The scale and urgency of the climate crisis can no longer be ignored. We have witnessed terrible climate-related…
Streeting makes eve of budget intervention on child health, poverty and two-child limit
Today Health Secretary Wes Streeting gave a wide ranging speech to health think tank Kings Fund at their…
Workers to receive extra £900 a year from living wage increase
Rachel Reeves has announced an increase in the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage ahead of a…
‘The budget give Labour an opportunity to unleash grassroots growth through co-operation’
In his speech to this year’s Labour Conference, the Prime Minister spoke of the need to “grow our…
‘Homes for the ages’
This Labour Government inherited a country facing a housing crisis, with rising rents across the UK, soaring property…
‘Tough talk, cruel policy — and it still won’t stop the boats’
Scrolling social media is no way to truly judge how a government announcement has gone down. But amid…
Budget: Almost all Labour members back levies on gambling and banking sector
Labour members would almost unanimously back increased taxes on the gambling and banking sector in the Budget, along…
‘As the G20 falters, Britain can lead: Starmer’s global role comes at the right time’
The Prime Minister has just returned from the G20 Summit in South Africa, his 20th foreign trip this year.…
‘No more waiting lists to repair our NHS’
Lord Hutton of Furness is a former Health Minister and Chair of the Association of Infrastructure Investors in…
