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Torsten Bell
News

Labour MP Torsten Bell shares one simple fact on the economy that tears Tories apart

Basit Mahmood
22 May, 2025

It’s pretty damning…

chris curtis
News

Chris Curtis MP sets out what Labour needs to do to reach its target of building 1.5 million homes

Basit Mahmood
20 May, 2025

‘We have a shortage of planners and the key question is how do we get them in place in local councils we need more than just 300…’

A photo of building site
Opinion

Sarah Edwards MP: SME House Builders are vital to Reaching 1.5 million Homes – We must help them

Sarah Edwards
13 May, 2025

SME House Builders play a vital role in the house building ecosystem, looking at smaller sites which would not be financially viable for the larger developers.

Keir Starmer
News

These are the 42 Labour MPs who have called for Starmer to abandon disability benefit cuts

Chris Jarvis
8 May, 2025

“The planned cuts of more than £7bn represent the biggest attack on the welfare state since George Osborne ushered in the years of austerity”

Bin strike
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Labour minister tells Unite to call off Birmingham bin strike and ‘accept the deal’

Basit Mahmood
15 April, 2025

“The images are awful and people have enough to worry about in their lives without having to worry about rubbish collection alongside it…”

A photo of the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting
News

Labour government recruits over 1,500 extra GPs since October in bid to end 8am appointment scramble

Basit Mahmood
8 April, 2025

“This doesn’t mean it’s ‘job done’. Loads to do. But the NHS is going in the right direction.”

A photo of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivering the government's Spring Statement
Opinion

Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity

Prem Sikka
28 March, 2025

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement is atest

Rachel Reeves holding the budget briefcase outside Number 11 Downing Street
Opinion

Securonomics: Why Labour’s New Economic Model is Exactly What Britain Needs

Chris Worrall
3 March, 2025

If Britain is to regain its position as a world leader in innovation, industry, and growth, then it needs bold, intelligent economic thinking—not the tired slogans of economic nationalism.

Keir Starmer speaking at Labour Conference
News

Keir Starmer slams Nigel Farage for ‘fawning over Putin’

Basit Mahmood
26 February, 2025

“Nigel Farage didn’t even turn up to the debate in Parliament today, Nigel Farage is fawning over Putin, that is not patriotism, that is not what working people need.

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Ignore the naysayers, Labour is delivering on our promise of change

Abdi Duale
25 February, 2025

In less than a year this Labour government has pursued a radical agenda to rebuild and reform our public services, and finally address the fundamental problems in our economy the Tories ignored for 14 years.

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