Alarm raised over safety practices of private firms given Covid contracts
Labour has urged the government to ensure private firms awarded contracts in the pandemic have Covid-secure workplaces after…
Privatisation
Why the Labour left is backing Joe and Seema in Haringey
In internal elections among Haringey Labour councillors this Thursday, the leadership of the Labour-controlled local authority is set…
Corbyn asks Trump for “urgent clarity” on NHS in UK-US trade talks
Jeremy Corbyn has written to President Trump demanding “urgent clarity” on whether the NHS is “genuinely off the…
Undoing Failing Grayling’s probation privatisation is only a first step
Our criminal justice system has rarely been out of the news over the last few years – for…
Privatisation “puts the public in danger”, says McDonnell
John McDonnell has accused the Tory government of “putting the public in danger” in pursuit of an ideological…
Lisa Nandy: The NHS is under threat. We need to talk about our ageing towns
As the NHS celebrates its 70th birthday, what will it take to safeguard it for the next 70…
Gareth Thomas: Neoliberalism isn’t a concept, it’s a man called Li Ka Shing
Li Ka Shing isn’t a household name in the UK, although his investments here mean he affects hundreds…
Barnet easyCouncil – how not to do local government
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Outsourcing, privatising and gerrymandering. That’s what…
Outsourcing fails public services – Tory Barnet ‘easyCouncil’ chaos is proof
Last week the Tories lost their majority on Barnet Council. Three veteran councillors were deselected for being insufficiently…
Amber Rudd, G4S and refugees – how asylum accommodation is outsourced to private companies
Refugees and Carillion are not usually found in the same sentence – but they should be. The outsourcing…
