Jeremy Corbyn tried to get peerages for ex-Speaker John Bercow and his former deputy Tom Watson 

Jeremy Corbyn ‘made a last-ditch bid’ to secure peerages for ex-Speaker John Bercow and his former deputy Tom Watson He had put both controversial figures forward for elevation to the Upper House  But they are understood to have been rejected after the usual vetting process He may have made a new bid just before he … Read more

Labour backs assets ‘wealth tax’ to help coronavirus recovery

Labour backs ‘wealth tax’ on assets as part of a ‘new settlement’ to help the UK recover from coronavirus crisis By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 16:12 BST, 3 July 2020 | Updated: 17:30 BST, 3 July 2020 Labour has backed the idea of a wealth tax to help the UK recover from coronavirus … Read more

Labour backs assets ‘wealth tax’ to help coronavirus recovery

Labour backs ‘wealth tax’ on assets as part of a ‘new settlement’ to help the UK recover from coronavirus crisis By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 16:12 BST, 3 July 2020 | Updated: 17:30 BST, 3 July 2020 Labour has backed the idea of a wealth tax to help the UK recover from coronavirus … Read more

Labour calls for free flu jabs for over-50s to prevent second Covid-19 wave combined with influenza

Labour has urged for all over-50s to receive a free flu vaccine to prevent a ‘perfect storm’ of a winter flu outbreak and second Covid-19 wave. Leader Sir Keir Starmer said the Government owed it to the NHS to do all it could to prevent the two outbreaks coinciding.  It comes as The Royal College … Read more

Six times the UK Government changed its mind on coronavirus rules

Facebook has today launched a campaign to weed out misinformation about the coronavirus — but even official messages have caused ‘considerable confusion’. The British Government has rowed back on issues and changed its stance constantly throughout the Covid-19 crisis, always insisting it is ‘following science’. Complicated messages and changes of heart have been rife in … Read more

Rebecca Long-Bailey: Keir Starmer’s created ‘avoidable mess’

Rebecca Long-Bailey tells Sir Keir Starmer he’s plunged Labour into an ‘avoidable mess’ by firing her for tweeting an interview which contained an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory Rebecca Long-Bailey hits out at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer over her sacking The hard-Left MP claims that Sir Keir made up his mind to dismiss her too quickly … Read more

Rebecca Long-Bailey: Keir Starmer’s created ‘avoidable mess’

Rebecca Long-Bailey tells Sir Keir Starmer he’s plunged Labour into an ‘avoidable mess’ by firing her for tweeting an interview which contained an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory Rebecca Long-Bailey hits out at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer over her sacking The hard-Left MP claims that Sir Keir made up his mind to dismiss her too quickly … Read more

Sir Keir Starmer claims ministers have been ‘asleep at the wheel’ over reopening of schools 

Sir Keir Starmer today refused to tell teaching unions to step up their efforts to help reopen the nation’s schools as Gavin Williamson said parents who refuse to send their children back to the classroom will face fines.  The Labour leader accused ministers of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ over the delayed return of schools as … Read more

Spend, spend, spend! Boris Johnson vows NO return to austerity

Boris Johnson today vowed to keep splashing the cash despite mounting government debt as he insisted the coronavirus crisis can be an ‘opportunity for change’. The PM said he will ‘double down’ on investment in ‘levelling up’ the UK, comparing the effort to Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal following the Great Depression in the US … Read more