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…
Levelling Up
‘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.…
‘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…
‘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,…
‘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…
‘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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
