Tag: Labour Party

In today's Budget announcement, Rachel Reeves announced a measly £230m to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping: £230m to tackle homelessness ...

The Tories’ legacy? The worst pay growth of any government for a century.

by Steve Topple

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures on employee earnings show that real average annual wage growth was just 0.3% ...

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham standing in front of a fleet of yellow Bee Network buses bus fare cap

Andy Burnham just SHAMED the Labour government over the bus fare cap rise

by Hannah Sharland

Mayor Andy Burnham has slammed the brakes on Keir Starmer raising the bus fare cap in Greater Manchester. Of course, ...

Labour just railroaded a secretive US-UK nuclear treaty renewal deal

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) said it condemns the government's outrageous railroading through parliament of the renewal of the ...

Slum landlord Labour MP now profiting from failing children’s home where kids are at risk

by HG

This article was updated at 11:30am on Wednesday 30 October to include a statement from Heartwood Care Group Jas Athwal, ...

Watch Jeremy Corbyn challenge David Lammy on arms sales to Israel in parliament

by James Wright

29 October 2024

In parliament, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn demanded foreign secretary David Lammy end arms sales to Israel. Corbyn: Israel ...

Transform’s Anwarul Khan speaks about the 2024 conference, Collective, and diversity

by Ed Sykes

29 October 2024

After Transform’s recent conference, the Canary spoke to the party’s Anwarul Khan about some of the key issues the event ...

Keir Starmer budget bus fares Rachel Reeves Labour

Starmer near as damn it ADMITTED the Autumn Budget will hammer poor people

by HG

Keir Starmer has shamelessly and pre-emptively defended the Labour Party's decisions on taxes and public spending which chancellor Rachel Reeves ...

Disabled people urge Kendall and Reeves not to go ahead with dangerous WCA changes

by Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Deaf and disabled people's organisations (DDPOs) and trade unions have called on Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall to rethink dangerous ...

Rachel Reeves increase taxes to fund public services

73% of MPs want to INCREASE taxes to fund public services. You got that, Rachel Reeves?

New polling of 101 MPs has found that nearly three quarters (73%) would prefer to increase taxes to fund public ...

Sign for SSE Peterhead Power Station, with smoke in the background carbon capture and storage

Carbon capture and storage project will generate FIVE times more emissions than admitted

A fossil fuel and an energy company have vastly underplayed the emissions that a proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) ...

BirminghamLive has pushed YET MORE clickbait about DWP PIP reforms

by Hannah Sharland

Corporate media conglomerate Reach is at its fearmongering, clickbait antics again over Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Personal Independence ...

Prevention is key to investing in osteoporosis services, but will Labour keep its promise?

by Ruth Hunt

One of the changes the new government wants is to make a shift from hospital to prevention. The case for ...

Kuenssberg begs ‘WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE LANDLORDS’ as ‘working person’ debate rages on

Labour has found itself in a bit of a mess over the concept of what constitutes a 'working person'. While ...

“A mass movement” exists on the left, but is “dissipated”. It needs bringing together.

by Ed Sykes

At the Transform conference 2024 on Saturday 19 October, there was a panel focusing on the future of the mass ...

#SwindonsSundaySermon: Carry On Conservatives? Matron! Take them away!

by Rachael Swindon