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Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to set up a housing department in Whitehall as continues his summer campaigning blitz with a visit to a key marginal today. The Labour leader, who toured the west country last week after his return from a holiday…
Business needs a Labour friend There is a perilous and reactionary shift in attitude in Britain that puts at risk everything Labour has ever hoped to achieve. Business is increasingly mistrusted, disliked, and resented – and we all know it…
Labour supporters appear to be split over whether the party can win a general election with its current Brexit offer. A wafer-thin majority of LabourList readers said the party could make it into Downing Street on the back of a single…
One of areas where the Labour manifesto needs improvement is transport. It is rarely a frontline area at election time, and although the nationalisation of the railways proved a popular pledge, there was little on how Labour could make a…
The government's cancellation of railway electrification is "a kick in the for Leicestershire," Jonathan Ashworth has said as he meets with a rail-union leader to rally against the plans. Ashworth is to meet with general secretary of the…
Key rail routes will take longer with increased carbon emissions and cost more as a result of the Tory rail electrification cancellation. Andy McDonald, Labour's shadow transport secretary, said that the cancellation to the Midland…
Today Labour analysis revealed that our railways are more overcrowded than they've ever been, since records began. We ask, is rail nationalisation the answer to record train overcrowding? Last week, Unison won their four year court battle…
Rail union leader Manuel Cortes has travelled to Wales to meet with MPs and formulate a response to the Tory betrayal on rail electrification. Cortes, the general secretary of TSSA, met with Swansea West's Geraint Davies and Gower's Tonia…
British railways are their most overcrowded since records began, Labour research released today reveals. The top ten most overcrowded routes on our railways are on average 190 per cent over capacity, which is an increase of more than 30 per…
The Tories obsession with "flogging off Britain's national assets is breathtaking", the general secretary of TSSA has said upon the publication of the Hansford report. The report wants to introduce "contestability" into Network Rail's…
"Billions for London, uncertainty for Manchester" – read the headline in my local paper this week. The government’s broken promises to the north reached new heights after plans for a long over-due re-haul of the northern rail system were…
Andy Burnham has led condemnation from the leaders of some of the biggest cities in the north over the Tories' decision to cancel funding for rail electrification while issuing backing for London's Crossrail 2. The Greater Manchester mayor…
