Labour minister tells Unite to call off Birmingham bin strike and ‘accept the deal’
“The images are awful and people have enough to worry about in their lives without having to worry about rubbish collection alongside it…”
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Labour government recruits over 1,500 extra GPs since October in bid to end 8am appointment scramble
“This doesn’t mean it’s ‘job done’. Loads to do. But the NHS is going in the right direction.”
Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity
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
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Keir Starmer slams Nigel Farage for ‘fawning over Putin’
“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.
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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.
Labour government delivers an extra 2 million NHS appointments in its first five months
The government says it has been able to deliver the extra two million appointments due to extra evening and weekend working.
Labour must not let the polls spook it into chasing Reform rightwards
If Labour try to act like a slightly nicer version of Reform, it’s not going to win over the 90% of Reform’s voters who would vote Reform anyway
Labour MPs set up parliamentary group to tackle threat of Reform UK
MPs representing the 89 constituencies where Reform came second in last year’s election have formed an informal caucus to counter the threat posed by Nigel Farage’s party
Labour’s drift to the right could risk Keir Starmer being a one-term prime minister
The government’s honeymoon has been short lived.