Labour ministers tread carefully as welfare reform looms
When Sir Keir Starmer was preparing to run for the Labour leadership in 2020, his campaign director told the future prime ...
Labour accused of rank hypocrisy over plans to detain child migrants and ditch slavery protections
Yvette Cooper is pressing ahead with plans her party previously opposed as campaigners warn measures will only increase ...
Labour eases checks on illegal migrants
Labour is watering down border laws designed to block illegal migrants from obtaining citizenship and to force them to submit ...
Labour’s border bill to 'block migrants from claiming slavery protections’
Sir Keir Starmer accused the previous Conservative government of ‘driving a coach and horses’ through protections for victims ...
Labour hails Thatcher and Trump, pledging to “cut the weeds of regulation”
Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president ...
The new Labour MPs who have barely said a word in Parliament
Backbenchers elected for first time last year made on average only 43 contributions, with some speaking as few as three times ...
Why Labour is trying to kill off Britain’s ‘best run’ county
As Charlie Pallett walks her two pugs through her tiny Rutland village she points out her godmother’s house on one side; her ...
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Backing Heathrow expansion suggests Labour is serious about boosting growth
Declaring that “growth will not come without a fight”, she said that the government would back airport expansion and offered ...
Labour’s Heathrow airport expansion and the climate crisis
It is the rich and the corporations who will take the lion’s share of the benefits from Labour’s and all airport expansions, ...
Will Labour’s plan for growth actually work? Two economists respond
Labour’s ambitions for a more pro-growth, pro-business agenda mark a positive shift, at least in tone. But actual, visible, ...
A Battle Within Labour Over Welfare Reform?
Today, we look at the challenges facing Labour’s plans for welfare reform. After the chancellor Rachel Reeves set her sights on a “fundamental” reform of the system, Laura, Paddy and Henry discuss ...
Migration 'capitulation' as Labour eases checks and makes UK 'soft-touch of Europe'
The Tories had included a provision in the Illegal Migration Act (2023) that meant the vast majority of migrants who entered the UK illegally were not eligible for settled status ...