Labour conference votes overwhelmingly to replace FPTP with PR
Although the party leadership does not approve the change, the conference has backed a motion which supports a “fairer proportional electoral system.”
Basit Mahmood
5 key takeaways from Rachel Reeves’s speech, including a hike to the minimum wage
‘The last Labour government delivered Britain’s first ever national minimum wage. The next Labour government will introduce a genuine living wage.’
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A round of progressive news…
Louise Haigh: “Labour in power will bring our railways back into public ownership.”
‘We believe in a public transport system where power is in the hands of the public.’
Labour4PR rally: ‘This is about justice in our political system’
“PR creates a culture of much better decision making and working across parties in order to improve quality of decisions made.”
Interview: Tan Dhesi urges government to do more to guard against imported toxic ideologies following violent unrest in Leicester
“We have to constantly work to keep community cohesion because there are forces at play who do not want that to happen.”
Angela Rayner tells Labour conference the party will ‘oversee the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation’
‘The Tories have become too dependent on handing away our public services on the cheap’
Gordon Brown’s superb Twitter thread on the scale of poverty and inequality in the UK
‘The low paid get just £550 in government help, despite facing £1,300 rise in fuel bills not to mention other costs’.
Why Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget is only for the richest 1% while failing the most in need
There was more in this mini budget for bankers than there was for children living in poverty.
Labour could abolish House of Lords if it wins next election
The suggestion was made in a draft report of a constitutional review led by former prime minister Gordon Brown.