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19 Jul 21
A new Fabian pamphlet calls on the Labour Party to position itself as the party of rigorous stewardship of public money – authors David Walker and John Tizard explain why.
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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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10 Sep 18
Proposed new boundaries to UK electoral constituencies, slashing the number of MPs from 650 to 600, have been submitted to parliament.
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27 Mar 18
The UK’s aid spending is “chaotic”, Labour’s shadow international development secretary has said, setting out her own ‘feminist’ plan for global development.
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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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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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28 Sep 16
Former Labour minister John Healey has said that devolution under the last Labour government was “hamstrung” by efforts to develop proposals that could apply across the whole country.
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27 Sep 16
Labour has launched a childcare taskforce that will consider new policy proposals to provide affordable, high-quality childcare fit for the 21st century in order to help parents get into work.
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27 Sep 16
Labour’s shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rebecca Long Bailey has called for pension scheme members across local government to be given a greater say in where investments are made.
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27 Sep 16
Labour would scrap Work Capability Assessments and the sanctions system for jobseekers as part what shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams called a plan to change the culture of the UK’s...
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26 Sep 16
Labour’s shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald has accused the government of clinging to a failed privatisation model for running the rail network and pledged to take services into public...
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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 Apr 16
Many of the most deprived areas in the country face local authority budget reductions of more than three times the national average, according to an analysis of council cuts.
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31 Mar 16
David Cameron has pledged the UK government will do “everything we can” to keep the steel plant at Port Talbot in Wales open, but indicated nationalisation of the facility was not likely.
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25 Jan 16
The Labour-led Welsh Government was quick to set out its spending plans, aiming to provide clarity and protect services despite financial pressure
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4 Dec 15
Labour has said that cuts to benefit entitlements being introduced through Universal Credit mean controversial tax credit reductions have been “rebranded” by the government rather than reversed.
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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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29 Apr 15
The Conservatives would pass a law to guarantee no increases to income tax, National Insurance or VAT over the next parliament if they form the next government, David Cameron has said.
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20 Mar 15
The SNP is wary of coalition with Labour, but what better way to cement the Union than to have nationalists participate in Westminster government?
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3 Apr 13
The Budget announced a range of measures to boost home ownership. But the underlying problem is a shocking fall in house building by councils, something the coalition’s New Homes Bonus has...