Hunt delivers a Budget for the fewest against backdrop of widespread strikes
The inadequacy of yesterday’s Budget was epitomised by one of Jeremy Hunt’s few surprise announcements: scrapping the lifetime allowance on tax-free…
Living Standards
Austerity is not the only game in town. We must look at taxes on wealth
We are deep in a cost-of-living emergency 12 years in the making, an emergency that is about to…
Tories have delivered Brexit chaos and record slump in living standards – Len McCluskey on car manufacturing shock
This is the full response published by Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, after car production fell for…
Rise of the robots will not mean wave of job losses, says Tom Watson
Robots can “set us free”, Tom Watson said today as he joined forces with influential left-leaning economists to…
Paradise Papers show we need action on tax evasion – Corbyn speech to business
This is Jeremy Corbyn’s full speech to the CBI annual conference today. It’s a pleasure to be with…
Giving up on the single market will only extend the icy grip of austerity
Politicians often boast of having fully costed manifestos. Theresa May was rightly lambasted for going to the country…
Manuel Cortes: It would be madness for Labour to accept any Brexit deal which quietens our voice in Europe
It’s great to see Labour’s frontbench singing from the same hymn sheet on Brexit whilst the Tories are…
Corbyn: May is determined to use Brexit to turn Britain into a bargain basement tax haven on the shores of Europe
This is the full statement published by Jeremy Corbyn following Theresa May’s speech, on Brexit, in which she…
Starmer: Labour must speak for the 52 per cent as well as remain voters
Labour must speak to both sides of the Brexit debate, Keir Starmer said today, as he warned Theresa…
Len McCluskey: Britain voted for change – now we must defend working people while the Tories duck questions on Brexit
Four months after the vote, the only thing we know for sure is what we knew on the…
