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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...
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27 Sep 16
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...
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26 Sep 16
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.
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26 Sep 16
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.
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8 Feb 16
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.
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29 Sep 15
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...
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29 Sep 15
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.
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29 Sep 15
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.
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28 Sep 15
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...
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28 Sep 15
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.
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28 Sep 15
New shadow housing minister John Healey has today set out a series of financial reforms that could help the public sector build 100,000 homes a year.
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15 Sep 15
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...
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14 Sep 15
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...
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20 Aug 15
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
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9 Mar 15
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.
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24 Mar 14
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
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17 Jan 14
Ed Miliband today pledged to break up the five large retail banks in the UK to increase competition in the market if Labour wins the next election.
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28 Jan 13
Colin Talbot
27 Sep 16Diane 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...
27 Sep 16A 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...
26 Sep 16Shadow 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.
26 Sep 16Jeremy 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.
8 Feb 16Labour 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.
29 Sep 15Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the Conservative government’s policies have created an “unbalanced and unsustainable” economy that would leave Britain vulnerable to another...
29 Sep 15Shadow 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.
29 Sep 15Labour 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.
28 Sep 15Shadow 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...
28 Sep 15John 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.
28 Sep 15New shadow housing minister John Healey has today set out a series of financial reforms that could help the public sector build 100,000 homes a year.
20 Aug 15The 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
9 Mar 15Shadow 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.
24 Mar 14Shadow 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
17 Jan 14Ed Miliband today pledged to break up the five large retail banks in the UK to increase competition in the market if Labour wins the next election.
28 Jan 13Colin Talbot
