Tag: Labour Party

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

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I don’t know if you have noticed, but Keir Starmer and his Labour Party are struggling to get to grips ...

The figures are in. The plan to make the NHS a shell vehicle for private healthcare is well on its way.

by James Wright

A new report has revealed the extent of the private healthcare boom both inside and outside the NHS. Systematic underfunding ...

Major concerns raised over just HOW Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill will even be enforced

A Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) expert member has highlighted key concerns about enforcement and licensing to a committee ...

Labour is running the NHS public consultation to lay cover for an upcoming crisis

by Dr Julia Grace Patterson

Ever since Wes Streeting announced Labour's new NHS public consultation on Monday, I’ve had questions buzzing away in the back ...

Rachel Reeves warned one in FOUR councils will need emergency government bailouts

One in four councils in England say they are likely to have to apply for emergency government bailout agreements to ...

Gus John delivers a scathing open letter to David Lammy over Black History Month and UK slavery reparations

The following is an open letter to Labour Party foreign secretary David Lammy from academic professor Gus John. Dear Rt ...

Reform will gain from Labour’s crisis if a “united socialist organisation” doesn’t step in

by Ed Sykes