What we need to learn from Donald Trump’s election victory
Trump’s victory is a wakeup call. It is time to regroup and get serious about the world we want to live in.
Dawn Butler
Dawn Butler is Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities and Labour MP for Brent Central.
Dawn Butler MP: We need more of Jacinda Ardern’s authenticity in British politics
‘I know from my own experience that centring women is not easy to do.’
Dawn Butler MP: Why Rishi Sunak is not the answer people so desperately need
Rishi Sunak, as a young student joyfully exclaiming that he has no working-class friends. What is wrong with the working class?
Dawn Butler MP: There is nothing more aspirational than fighting alongside a trade union
‘Trade unions are the aspirational vehicle for working class people. They are how workers organise to have a good rate of pay, good sick pay, a decent retirement, and a reasonable work-life balance.’
Labour needs to unite around fighting the cost of living crisis
‘Labour is recovering, but we cannot reunite the country if we remain divided ourselves.’
Dawn Butler MP: ‘We can’t allow levelling up to be seen only in geographic terms’
‘If the Government is serious about tackling inequality and levelling up, it needs to act to increase the incomes of those in poverty’
Dawn Butler MP: Why I cannot vote for the government’s coronavirus plans or further power grabs
‘Last month I voted against Boris Johnson’s Plan B, last year, I voted against the renewal of the Coronavirus Act because it contained sweeping, unaccountable powers.’
Dawn Butler: True equality needs to include all women (so there’s still much to do)
Universal suffrage – free of conditions such as age or property ownership – will soon celebrate its 90th anniversary. Let it be an inspiration to today’s feminists.
The gender pay gap cannot be tolerated any longer
Companies failing to address the gender pay gap have to pay up, writes shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler.