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.
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.
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.
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”.
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...
A Labour government would guarantee regional development scheme spending levels in line with European structural fund allocations over the next decade, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has...
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has set out a plan for a network of regional development banks that would move major investment decisions out of Whitehall and into regions and localities.
Jeremy Corbyn is to launch a national campaign against the government’s plans to expand the use of grammar schools after he was re-elected as Labour’s leader at the party’s conference on Saturday.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for councils to take back direct control of local services, including the provision of utilities such as power and water.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the Conservative government’s policies have created an “unbalanced and unsustainable” economy that would leave Britain vulnerable to another...
Shadow local government secretary Jon Trickett has warned the government’s Spending Review process to negotiate devolution deals may amount to an attack on local democracy.
Labour plans to accelerate the nationalisation of rail services by using break clauses in franchises to take operations into public ownership rather than waiting until the contracts expire.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith has pledged to change the debate on social security to reflect that what he called a national asset that represents the “collective pooling of risk...
John McDonnell has announced that Lord Bob Kerslake, the former head of the civil service, is to undertake a review of the operation of the Treasury for Labour as it develops its economic polices.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said that Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne are “poverty deniers” who are ignoring the extent to which families are struggling...
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has begun to appoint his shadow cabinet after his landslide victory on Saturday, with campaign manager and former Greater London Council finance chair John McDonnell named...
The SNP outflanked Labour from the Left at the general election. So might the apparent success of a Left-wing leadership candidate bring Scottish voters back into the fold? It seems not
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has claimed that Conservative spending plans for after the election imply £70bn worth of cuts will need to be made to public services in the next parliament.
Shadow Treasury chief secretary Chris Leslie says that he wants to ‘declutter’ public services and chuck out the deficit. He talks to PF about Labour’s economic makeover
