News 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… Conrad Duncan 5th December, 2020, 12:01 am
Comment 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… James Meadway 7th September, 2020, 1:15 pm
Comment 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.… Ibrahim Dogus 22nd September, 2018, 10:34 am
Comment 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,… 3rd June, 2017, 5:00 pm
Comment 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… Ibrahim Dogus 6th March, 2017, 2:57 pm
Comment 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… Ibrahim Dogus 15th December, 2016, 12:00 pm
Comment 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… Nick Forbes 4th June, 2016, 7:00 am
Comment 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… Karin Smyth 24th May, 2016, 3:12 pm
News McDonnell aims to create 20,000 entrepreneurs a year Labour will expand a programme offering help to budding entrepreneurs, in the latest pro-business pitch from shadow Chancellor… Conor Pope 8th April, 2016, 9:58 am