From the moment Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell took the reigns of the Labour Party in 2015 and jerked it leftwards, nationalisation has been touted as an ointment for all the nation’s ills. Energy bills high? Nationalise the suppliers. Trains delayed again? Scrap the franchise model. 70p too dear for …
Read More »Would Labour really save families more than £6,700 a year? | Politics
Claim John McDonnell claims a Labour government would save families more than £6,700 a year. Background In a speech in Birmingham on Wednesday, the shadow chancellor will claim most households have been hit by the rising cost of living under the Tories. He will say households would save about £6,700 …
Read More »Labour expected to water down radical environmental policy and other key pledges in manifesto
Labour is expected to water down its radical environmental policy and other key pledges in the party’s election manifesto, amid concerns that they will prove undeliverable. Despite making climate change Labour’s number one priority, senior party figures have signalled that a commitment to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2030 …
Read More »Promises, promises: the Labour and Tory spending pledges | Politics
The 2019 election will be the first in decades where both Labour and the Conservatives promise to turn on the public spending tap. The manifestos have yet to be released, but both have already made multibillion-pound pledges as the era of austerity comes to an end. Labour’s major spending pledges …
Read More »Brexit: Unison to vote for ‘back remain now’ motion at Labour conference in blow to Corbyn – live news | Politics
One of the many surprising features about Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader in 2015 was that he managed to get chosen by a party that is overwhelming in favour of EU membership despite, for most of his career, being in favour of the UK being out. Corbyn accepted remain …
Read More »Border poll question heightened by Brexit, Shadow Chancellor tells Belfast festival
A BORDER poll could be held as a result of ongoing disputes over Brexit, the Shadow Chancellor told a debate in west Belfast last night. Labour MP John McDonnell said the possibility of a poll needs to be debated, including within his own party, because Brexit has changed wider political …
Read More »Labour vows to stop outsourcing ‘rip-off’ by ensuring councils take back local services
Rubbish collection, cleaning and school dinner services will be taken back by local councils, under Labour plans to stop taxpayers being “ripped off” by private firms. The party has pledged to reverse four decades of outsourcing in local government, blaming it for “scandals” such as the collapse of Carillion at a …
Read More »Labour pledges to push councils into taking back local services | Politics
Councils will be expected to take rubbish collection, cleaning and school dinner provision back in-house under plans to reverse four decades of outsourcing to be announced by the Labour party today . In the biggest shake-up of local government since the Margaret Thatcher-inspired reforms of the 1980s, a future Jeremy …
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