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Anneliese Dodds has Keir Starmer's "full confidence" and is doing a "fantastic job", the Labour leader has said. In an attempt to quash rumours that Dodds could soon lose her job soon in a reshuffle, Starmer backed the Shadow Chancellor…
Over 200 Labour women representing council seats in local authorities across London have signed an open letter calling for action to tackle violence against women and girls following the murder of Sarah Everard. Criticising the police…
MPs will debate giving the police greater powers today as the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill returns to parliament. The controversial legislation, which would grant powers to curb actions that "result in serious disruption to the…
Streatham Labour is engulfed in an internal row, as party officials have been accused of mishandling an annual general meeting by local members who claim eligible voters were disenfranchised and early results were leaked. Allegations…
Sadik Khan will today launch his re-election campaign for City Hall telling voters that his top priority will be "jobs, jobs, jobs" with a call for a 1945-style programme to rebuild the economy of London. In a speech later today, the mayor…
The way that Jackie Weaver was treated in Handforth was awful. And while I don’t know whether she actually did have the authority, this wasn’t the only authority struggle happening recently. This article is an attempt to address this in a…
This pandemic has clearly demonstrated the importance, and enduring relevance, of trade unions – from the way they have fought for sick pay for workers in the gig economy and opposed the disgraceful practice of fire and rehire, to the…
Angela Rayner has demanded that the Conservative Party apologise after Labour's lawyers wrote to the director of public prosecutions alleging that Tory London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey used fraud to influence the upcoming election. The…
Sadiq Khan has declared a "major incident" in London today as the rapid rise in coronavirus cases across the capital and increased hospitalisation of Covid sufferers has left the NHS "at risk of being overwhelmed". The Labour mayor in…
Sadiq Khan has told the government to "get a grip" on international travel with greater testing and quarantining procedures for new arrivals to control the spread of coronavirus amid rapidly rising cases. In an interview this afternoon, the…
The government must act urgently on air quality. Wednesday’s ruling in the heart-breaking inquest into the death of Ella Kissi-Debrah confirms not only that the government has a long way to go in tackling environmental racism in the UK, but…
Shadow minister for cultural industries Tracy Brabin has announced that she is stepping down from the Labour frontbench to focus on her mayoral campaign after being selected as the party's West Yorkshire candidate. Alison McGovern, who…
