Tories post 13 point poll lead as Labour plans fightback on the NHS
The Tories have posted a 13 point lead on Labour, according to polling published today. The survey, carried…
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Rachel Reeves: PM and chancellor have betrayed the “jams” but plough on with a £1 billion handout for the wealthy
Philip Hammond has abandoned his boss’s now famous “jams” (just about managing) families in the worst of all…
Dive in wages reveals Tories’ “abject failure”, says McDonnell
The fall in real wages over the next five years is a “damning indictment” of Tory economic failure,…
Corbyn: The chancellor didn’t even mention the NHS but healthcare is in crisis
Jeremy Corbyn today visited George Eliot hospital in Nuneaton, with Jon Ashworth, and issued the following statement: I was…
Alison McGovern: As borrowing balloons the blame for this mess lies with the Brexiteers who made up the facts
So here’s the very bad news. Our country looks set to be plunged into debt now totalling £2…
Lucy Powell: £240m grammar school splurge shows ministers are backing the wrong horse in the social mobility race
In a budget which barely mentioned education there was one stand-out pledge from the chancellor, a staggering commitment…
An astonishing set of Tory failures: top Labour figures give their verdict on key Autumn Statement measures
£122bn of extra borrowing by 2021 and growth downgraded for next year John McDonnell, shadow chancellor: “The figures speak…
McCluskey: “Timid” statement will do nothing to help the “jams”
The chancellor has failed to listen to the message of June 23 by pushing ahead with more austerity,…
McDonnell pours the jam back on the Tories but Brexit and borrowing mean Autumn Statement is a serious day
These used to be spiteful and occasionally jokey affairs when Ed Balls and George Osborne slugged it out…
Cut, cut and cut again, it could still have been Osborne – Kezia Dugdale on Hammond’s fresh round of austerity
This is the full response to the Autumn Statement issued today by Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale. We were…
