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“His defence that he didn’t realise he was at a party is so ridiculous that it’s actually offensive to the British public,” Keir Starmer declared at PMQs, before calling on the Prime Minister to “do the decent thing and resign”. Ridiculous…
Labour will attempt to use an opposition day debate to force a vote on scrapping VAT on home energy bills over the next year, as the party urges the Tories to back the move in a bid to help "hard-working people face a growing cost of living…
The average household energy bill is predicted to rise by hundreds of pounds in April. In the face of this cost-of-living crisis, which could see 2022 being branded as ‘the year of the squeeze’, Labour has focused on a VAT cut. The party…
Sunday Morning Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said a "decade of dither and delay" from Conservative governments on reforming the energy sector was to blame for a "cost of living crisis". She set out Labour's immediate plans to…
Labour's Rachel Reeves has called on the government to "get a grip" and tackle the cost-of-living crisis after new research revealed older people are paying more than twice as much for their energy as the younger generation. Analysis from…
1. Keir Starmer hints Labour could hold back in favour of Lib Dem candidates In a Times Radio interview, Keir Starmer hinted that Labour could hold back in constituencies targeted by the Lib Dems at the next general election in his bid to…
The new package of support for restaurants, pubs and bars unveiled by Rishi Sunak today amid Covid disruption has been criticised by the Labour Party as "a holding package from a government caught in a holding position". The Chancellor has…
Labour's Rachel Reeves has ridiculed the claim from No 10 that an event attended by Boris Johnson and his wife in the Downing Street garden in May last year, when household mixing was prohibited by Covid rules, was a "work meeting"…
Labour has warned of "price crunches" as UK inflation hits a ten-year high and described the latest economic reports as a "stark illustration of the cost of living crisis facing families this Christmas". Responding to the news that…
“I am sick of people skirting around calling this out for what it is: corruption,” Keir Starmer has declared. No longer is Labour using only the terms ‘cronyism’ and ‘sleaze’ in its criticism of the government approach to standards in…
Behind the ‘smoke and mirrors’ of Rishi Sunak's budget was the stark fact that the Chancellor has raised tax by the highest amount in a single year for almost three decades. Fertile ground, surely, for a Labour Party to hit home its message…
Rishi Sunak urged his opposite number, Labour's Rachel Reeves, to welcome new money for her constituency by tweeting a graphic after the Budget on Wednesday – but it appears that the Chancellor has got his geography wrong…
