Labour on course to cut foreign aid budget in 2024/25
Projected Labour Party cuts to the UK foreign aid budget will pose challenges to restoring the UK’s role as a responsible development partner. That’s the verdict of a leading NGO…
when will Labour decide on planned reforms?
Labour Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers are keeping hush hush over the new government’s plans for the Tories controversial Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reforms. DWP PIP consultation: Labour’s…
Labour’s plans will kill more old people
A new government, but the same old callous austerity agenda. The stark “heating or eating” dilemma is about to get much worse for millions of older Britons. Because, less than…
Labour breaking pre-election promises already isn’t a shock
Not even a month in, and the Labour Party has already been breaking pledges it made prior to the 4 July general election. No, not the promise about austerity; that…
Labour junior doctors pay deal is actually still a real terms pay cut
The Labour Party government has struck a deal with NHS junior doctors’ leaders. It’s offering a supposed 22.3% pay rise over the next two years between 2023 to 2025. Predictably,…
Labour austerity incoming, as Reeves lies about £20bn hole
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to announce billions in austerity cuts after a performative ‘revelation’ that there’s a deficit in public finances. Reeves claimed she is “genuinely shocked” by something…
Labour announce more police at the worst time possible
Given the massive fall in living standards that the UK has suffered, no one could be surprised that crimes like shoplifting have risen. The Labour Party government, however, seem to…
TUSC lays the ground for a challenge to Starmer’s Labour Party
The following is a comment piece from the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) The first meeting of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) all-Britain steering committee since 4…
National Gas now wholly owned by Thames Water ‘vampire’ bank
The last remaining chunk of National Gas – the network of gas pipes that fuels the entire UK – has just been bought by notorious bank Macquarie. It comes as,…
Steve Reed tried and fails to defend water privatisation
The Tories are out of power now, but their toxic legacy remains. While much of this ‘toxicity’ is figurative, in the case of the environment it’s very much literal, with…
three weeks of jaw-droppingly duplicitous foreign policy
Well blow me down with a feather. It has taken less than three weeks of a Labour Party government to confirm that no matter which group of elites we are…
Labour housing policy is still falling short on accessibility
So far, the policy announcements made by Labour regarding housing and in their Renters Reform Bill have mentioned affordability. However, accessibility and the plight of chronically ill and disabled people…
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