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Yvette Cooper is launching a child poverty petition, which calls on the government to rethink plans to cut tax credits. She says these plans will push thousands more children into poverty. Cooper is one of four people in the running to be…
Yvette Cooper will today announce how she would create two million new high-skilled manufacturing jobs. Cooper is in the running to be Labour's next leader. Today she will visit the Graphene centre in Manchester where she will say that she…
The four Labour leadership candidates today took part in a mammoth two and a half hour hustings, organised by Unions Together in a hot Camden Town Hall. Here's a quick run-down of what happened: Jeremy Corbyn Corbyn said that the last…
Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn has said that there needs to be a "grown up debate" about what powers the security services have to monitor potential terrorists. Following Friday's attack in Tunisia, which killed 39 people (including…
Yvette Cooper will say Labour must double the number Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) MPs if the party were to win a majority. Cooper is in the running to be Labour's next leader. This announcement comes ahead of a BAME leadership…
This piece is probably going to please precisely no one. These thoughts are not based on any knowledge of how the campaigns are being run and what their strategies are - because I don't know. Nor is it based on my own preferences because I…
A new ORB survey for The Independent today shows that voters consider Andy Burnham the candidate most likely to improve Labour's chances at the next election. Rather than survey voting intention, the research asks people to consider which…
Labour leadership candidates took part in a hustings in the European Parliament with MEPs and staff yesterday. This is an account from Richard Howitt MEP - there is a full editorial note at the bottom. Question: What is your own commitment…
The government's new rules over immigration will cost the NHS millions, according to research carried out by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). The government are set to introduce a policy whereby migrants coming to the UK from outside of…
Choose your least irritating sporting metaphor (or cliché): it’s a marathon not a sprint, it’s a game of two halves and we’re barely 15 minutes in, it’s a Grand National and, having cleared the first open ditch, the contenders are beginning…
Three of the Labour leadership candidates were heckled today at the second official leadership hustings, which took place today in Stevenage. This came about when Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall wouldn't condemn the government'…
It's been six weeks since the realisation our dream of a Labour gain in Stevenage - and a Labour government for the country - had not come true. The events of May 7th and the scale of our defeat left many of us reeling. And after the…
