Leaving my pub: I made it through lockdowns but can’t survive the recovery
This week, I have had to tell people that I will be packing up and leaving my pub.…
small businesses
Here are the policies needed to help the SME community get back on its feet
Keir Starmer has picked apart the government’s erratic handling of the coronavirus crisis. The Labour leader has rightly…
Starmer calls on government to “repay” local businesses with more support
Keir Starmer has hailed the “monumental effort” made by small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic as he called…
How Labour can develop a distinctive narrative on business
Brendan Chilton’s comment piece for LabourList last week argued that the party should be opposing the Tories if…
SME4Labour: The world of work is changing. Join the debate with John McDonnell
The Labour Party is gearing up for one of its biggest and most diverse conferences in living memory.…
Chi Onwurah: Britain needs an alternative to the Tory hard right race to the bottom and Trump’s climate change disaster
Britain is a country of makers and creators. I grew up in Newcastle, in the shadow of Stephenson,…
Labour is the natural friend of small businesses but the uncertainty of Brexit demands the country do more for SMEs
Labour has in the past been tacitly and even directly accused of being inherently anti-business. The party has been…
Labour must make the case that small businesses are the engines of social justice
To many of us, it surely seems right now that the world is changing in unexpected, and sometimes…
Labour’s successes in local government set the agenda for Westminster
‘Labour is not only a party of protest, It is a party of government’. John McDonnell wasn’t being sentimental…
Apprenticeships pledge reveals another broken Tory promise
Another month, another broken ministerial pledge. It centres around the delivery of a promise on apprenticeships, and it…
