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Labour is right to take action to protect children from the harms of social media

Patrick Hurley
Today

Labour MP Patrick Hurley explains why he supports the government’s decision to consult on further steps to protect children online, including whether access to social media should be restricted for under-16s.

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Police reject Reform’s complaint over Labour’s clip of Matt Goodwin bad-mouthing Manchester 

Basit Mahmood
Today

“We can confirm we have received a report and after assessment, informed the complainant there is no offence identified”.

Matt Goodwin

Andy Burnham would have given Labour ‘commanding lead’ in Gorton and Denton by-election, new polling reveals

Olivia Barber
Today

The poll predicts that Labour would win by TWENTY percentage points with Burnham as their candidate

Andy Burnham

Latest Posts

Climate campaigners threaten legal action over lifting of fracking ban

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
25 September, 2022

Greenpeace has hit out at the government’s actions, condemning them as “unlawful.” Meanwhile, Scotland confirms its policy on fracking is not changing.

Landfill

New campaign aims to raise awareness of clothing deprivation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 September, 2022

The initiative is aimed at exposing clothing poverty and waste, to provide adequate clothing for all, and bring about change in law around the right to clothing.

Government faces backlash over plans to ditch proposed bans on fur and foie gras imports

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
24 September, 2022

“It’s illegal to produce fur in the UK and it’s illegal to produce foie gras. We have to address the contradiction that if it’s too cruel to be produced here in the UK it’s too cruel to import it.”

Liz Truss is planning a “full frontal assault on working people” – Frances O’Grady interview

Chris Jarvis
24 September, 2022

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady speaks to Left Foot Forward about the government’s plans for workers’ rights, the current wave of strikes and how trade unions can help tackle the climate crisis

Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown’s superb Twitter thread on the scale of poverty and inequality in the UK

Basit Mahmood
23 September, 2022

‘The low paid get just £550 in government help, despite facing £1,300 rise in fuel bills not to mention other costs’.

Kwasi Kwarteng portrait

Prem Sikka: This mini-budget will only increase inequality and poverty

Prem Sikka
23 September, 2022

The biggest winners are corporations and the rich. As a result, the government’s borrowing will surge from £72.4bn, to £234.1bn, but won’t provide details of the impact on current and future generations.

kwasi kwarteng

Why Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget is only for the richest 1% while failing the most in need

Basit Mahmood
23 September, 2022

There was more in this mini budget for bankers than there was for children living in poverty.

House of Lords

Labour could abolish House of Lords if it wins next election

Basit Mahmood
23 September, 2022

The suggestion was made in a draft report of a constitutional review led by former prime minister Gordon Brown.

Public health

Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue

Natalie Bennett
22 September, 2022

‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’

Ed Miliband

A Must Watch: Ed Miliband completely rips apart Jacob Rees-Mogg for lifting fracking ban

Basit Mahmood
22 September, 2022

“So first, why doesn’t [Rees-Mogg] admit the truth, that anyone who knows anything about this subject says his claim that fracking will cut bills is nonsense.”

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