Exclusive interview – Nadia Whittome MP: ‘We need to build an economy that cares for people’
The left-wing Labour MP argues that Labour needs to show it’s on the side of working class people, not millionaires.
“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model that’s trying to see the worst in people into an empowering system that builds people up rather than knocks them down.”
‘More than a decade of central government-imposed austerity on local councils looks set to continue.’
The Tory leader will use a speech today to call for an end to the windfall tax and to lift the ban on new oil and gas licences
‘I believe that the scale of such unauthorised data transfers across local government is a cyber-security disaster waiting to happen’
Reform’s mask slips again…
The NHS did receive more funding, but it had nothing to do with leaving the EU
“It’s not whether Reform will end up in the comedy club – they are the comedy club,”
A PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone supplied faulty surgical gowns
Levelling up is indeed vital, but it should not result in the levelling down of London
The case was taken on by GMB on behalf of thousands of members who lost their job when the discount store went into administration.