Rachel Reeves

A Tory MP has attacked Rachel Reeves, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, for planning to take maternity leave after the general election. Reeves is due to have a baby in June and has said that she will take maternity leave prior to that…

Rachel Reeves gave a speech at Bloomberg yesterday. That Reeves is orating about social security at a financial news company as opposed to – oh I don’t know – a community centre should offer some kind of perspective on the accusations that…

This post is written by Rachel Reeves MP and Stephen Timms MP. Later today we will be meeting older workers in West London to listen to the challenges they’ve faced in finding a job. Despite the skills and experience they bring far too many…

If you work hard, you get a fair day's pay. Not an unreasonable thing to believe in is it? That’s the deal people expect from a job in Britain. But for millions of people that deal has been broken. In 2010, there were 3.4 million workers…

Rachel Reeves will make a speech today slamming the Tories' handling of the welfare system, and will trial what looks like could potentially become a recurring line for Labour in the election run-up. "Tory Welfare Waste" is the takeaway…

This post is written by Rachel Reeves and Stephen Timms This week’s report from Oxfam, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), the Church of England and The Trussell Trust makes shocking reading for anyone who believes our welfare state is there…

As has become the norm in British politics, over the past couple of weeks immigration hasn’t been far from newspaper headlines. As politicians swamped (not the kind of language that we should surrender to Farage, Fallon and Blunkett so they…

Rachel Reeves has this afternoon announced that Labour would curb new EU migrants' access to benefits. Writing in the Daily Mail, Reeves said that people arriving from EU countries would not be able to claim jobseekers' allowance for the…

Ed Balls has today further elaborated on Labour's plans for a Mansion Tax - the funds of which would go towards increasing the NHS budget by £2.5 billion a year. Writing in the Evening Standard, Balls reiterated that this tax would apply to…

Ed Balls last night promised to prioritise earmarking billions of pounds to fund Labour's pledge to build 200,000 homes a year by 2020. Speaking with Telegraph journalist Mary Riddell at an event organised by Progress, Balls said: “We are…

This weekend we've seen desperate attempts by the Tories to hide the truth of their failed record on welfare with desperately rushed out promises to restrict to benefits for young people. Their proposals on benefits make no commitment to…