Chakrabarti calls for “full blown” inquiry into UK complicity in torture
Today Labour’s Shami Chakrabarti has called for a “full blown” judge-led investigation into British involvement in extraordinary rendition and torture.…
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Yasmin Qureshi: Our justice system is being brought to its knees by Tory cuts
You may not know, but the government is undertaking a substantial courts reform program that will fundamentally change…
Labour calls for ban on combustible cladding post-Grenfell
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Today Labour will set out its…
Tim Roache: The Tories are happy to send shipbuilding contracts abroad – at the cost of British workers
Shipbuilding isn’t just part of our proud heritage – as a trade union, it could and should also…
Rudd had to go, but that’s not enough – the Home Office needs a culture change
Over the weekend Amber Rudd became another casualty of the Prime Minister’s “hostile environment” policy. Theresa May has…
Today the Tories showed how little they care about Carillion workers
Three months after the collapse of construction giant Carillion, with its billions of pounds of public sector contracts,…
Dianne Hayter: Labour peers won’t allow Tory Brexit power grab
The EU withdrawal bill is currently going through the motions of its long committee stage in the Lords.…
WATCH: Diane Abbott slams Tories over Yarl’s Wood letter
Today Diane Abbott asked an urgent question in parliament on behalf of women facing indefinite detention in Yarl’s…
George Osborne backs votes at 16 campaign
George Osborne, editor of the Evening Standard, has backed the campaign to lower the voting age to 16. The…
Labour must take the lead on immigration after new report shows government failure
The Home Affairs Committee published its latest report about the Home Office’s handling of Brexit, and it is damning. It…
