PMQs verdict: Corbyn prospers as social care crisis quells Christmas cheer
It was the last prime minister’s questions of 2016 and what price would you have got 12 months…
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Planning a general election campaign and delivering the policies for Labour to win – Alice Perry’s latest NEC report
From Labour’s national executive committee awayday – 22 November 2016. Leader’s report One of the biggest Labour…
Legal aid cuts put justice “beyond the reach of thousands”, Burgon warns
Tory spending cuts have put justice “beyond the reach of thousands”, a shadow cabinet minister says today as…
Cut, cut and cut again, it could still have been Osborne – Kezia Dugdale on Hammond’s fresh round of austerity
This is the full response to the Autumn Statement issued today by Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale. We were…
Sarah Champion: Today the Tories must admit they have forced women and the low paid to bear the brunt of austerity
In every single budget and autumn statement under this Conservative government, women have lost out. As of the…
People are right to be angry over austerity but Trump lacks the answers – Corbyn’s full speech on “taking back control”
We meet after the global wake-up call of Tuesdays US presidential election. Whether in the US or the…
Why Bill Clinton was right about voters’ anger over austerity – and how Corbyn shook up the political establishment
I watched the first televised hustings of the 2015 Labour leadership contest with a friend who had just…
Richmond Park prospective candidate: I will show Labour at its diverse best
When I saw from my trusty Twitter feed that our party was seriously considering not standing a candidate…
Richmond Park Labour: “Dog-whistle” Zac and his Lib Dem friends have supported every Tory attack on the poor
Having failed to stop the Government’s plans to expand Heathrow, Zac Goldsmith has thrown his toys out the pram.…
Memo to Prezza junior: how Corbyn’s new speechwriter can help wow the crowds
Jeremy Corbyn has appointed a new speechwriter. The surname will be familiar to you because David Prescott is…
