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14 Jan 21
A future Labour government would produce 20-year projections for the public finances, according to shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds.
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21 Nov 19
Local government spending power would be returned to 2010 levels under a Labour government, the party’s manifesto has said.
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27 Sep 19
Labour has pledged to create state-owned pharmaceutical companies to supply the NHS, with the aim of improving patient access to medicines.
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17 Aug 19
Labour has unveiled a five-point plan to help local authorities “revive” struggling high streets.
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12 Aug 19
The Labour Party outspent its Conservative rivals considerably last year, according to the latest accounts published by the Electoral Commission.
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27 Nov 18
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has called for an investigation into controversial LOBO loans held by many local authorities.
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15 Oct 18
Vivienne Russell reminds us what happened in Liverpool in 1985 when the city council tried to set an illegal budget after Labour’s Dawn Butler recently revived memories of the row.
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28 Sep 18
Local authority finances were unusually high up the agenda at the Labour conference this year but councils remain in a state of flux until the government realises the system of funding them needs...
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24 Sep 18
Labour will “reprogramme” the Treasury to transform public sector investment, the shadow chancellor has said.
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24 Sep 18
Labour would bring in a new tax on holiday homes and set up a national housing department, the party’s shadow housing secretary has told its annual conference.
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27 Sep 17
Jeremy Corbyn told his party in his conference speech today he wants to give the public sector a new “dynamic role” in a post-austerity Britain.
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26 Sep 17
More land should be transferred from state and private control into the hands of local people, according to a former Labour adviser.
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26 Sep 17
A new economic model for the regions would help the Labour Party make “a fundamentally better offer” to voters, according to local government and devolution spokesman Jim McMahon.
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15 Jun 17
Owen Smith, who previously ran in the Labour leadership contest, has returned to Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet following a small reshuffle.
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1 Jun 17
Labour has closed the gap in the polls to just three points behind the Conservatives, according to the latest survey.
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31 May 17
Conservative plans would leave 5.5m people on waiting lists in England by 2022, according to a Labour document released today.
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16 May 17
Labour’s election manifesto pledge to raise taxes was called “economic illiteracy”, by a free-market think-tank today.
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16 May 17
Labour has today revealed plans to spend and raise through tax £48.6bn, in its 2017 general election manifesto.
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11 May 17
A draft version of Labour’s manifesto has leaked revealing the party’s plans to end the public sector pay cap, build 100,000 council homes and nationalise the railways.
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2 May 17
Labour has put forward plans to recruit 10,000 extra police officers across 43 forces in England Wales – to be paid for through reversing cuts to Capital Gains Tax.
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19 Apr 17
Labour says the party wants to pay for public services through a proposed tax hike on people earning more than £70,000.
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13 Apr 17
Labour would use £200bn of public funds currently invested each year in the private sector to “upgrade” the British economy, leader Jeremy Corbyn said today.
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23 Jan 17
Councils need a suite of new powers to crack down on landlords who let out substandard accommodation, Labour has said.
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28 Sep 16
Jeremy Corbyn has pledged that a Labour government would lift the housing borrowing cap on councils as part of what he called “municipal socialism for the 21st century”.
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27 Sep 16
Diane Abbott has accused Jeremy Hunt of treating junior doctors as part of “the enemy within” in the long-running dispute over a new contract and called on the health secretary to get...