News Labour reshuffle updates: Rayner moved, Nandy and Ashworth demoted, McFadden and Kendall promoted Labour has unveiled a raft of changes to the shadow cabinet and frontbench, including Angela Rayner replacing Lisa… Tom Belger & Morgan Jones 4th September, 2023, 7:50 am
Comment ‘Why and how Labour should embrace a “new levelling up” agenda’ Labour has carefully avoided mentioning ‘levelling up’ in the five missions Sir Keir Starmer has outlined this year.… Graeme Atherton 23rd July, 2023, 9:00 am
Comment ‘We must give control back to the North by improving public transport’ For the Tories, ‘levelling up’ the North is an election slogan. For Labour, it must be a job… Luke Joseph 9th July, 2023, 1:00 pm
Comment ‘Labour must reverse council cuts and base funding on need, not local wealth’ As the saying goes, all politics is local. For all the spectacle and drama that Westminster politics brings,… Sir Stephen Houghton 5th July, 2023, 10:25 am
Comment ‘The Tories’ anti-boycott bill tried to make Labour squirm – but it backfired’ In the middle of a housing crisis, and with many local authorities facing extreme financial difficulty, you might… George Peretz 4th July, 2023, 8:46 am
Comment ‘Basic income is our generation’s NHS. Labour needs to get on board’ Interest in a universal basic income has dramatically risen in response to plans for two micro-pilots in Jarrow,… Matthew Johnson 26th June, 2023, 11:10 am
News Levelling up fund “handing us a fiver” while “nicking 20 quid”, Nandy says Lisa Nandy has condemned the government’s ‘levelling up’ funding announcement and argued that it is the “equivalent of… Morgan Jones 19th January, 2023, 11:39 am
Daily email Both Labour and the Tories look to move away from Johnson’s levelling up rhetoric UK inflation fell again in December to 10.5%. But food prices continued to rise, with the Office for National Statistics estimating that… Katie Neame 18th January, 2023, 12:04 pm
News Nandy announces Labour would scrap government levelling up missions Lisa Nandy has announced that Labour would scrap the government’s ‘levelling up’ missions, declaring that it is “fundamentally… Katie Neame 17th January, 2023, 2:45 pm
Book review Book review – All In: How We Build a Country That Works by Lisa Nandy MP Why do MPs write books? Most books by MPs owe their existence to a combination of the following… Morgan Jones 3rd January, 2023, 12:18 pm