Tag Archives: Keir Starmer

SIR – Unfortunately I don’t believe Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, when she declares there would be no new wealth taxes under a Labour government (Interview, August 27).  This is not because I think she might be lying. I am sure she understands that increasing taxes is a barrier to …

It takes a brave candidate to contest a by-election for any party of government that has been in power for a long time. Stepping in for a charismatic prime minister, toppled by his own colleagues, to fight a tough contest in a corner of a capital city that defaults to …

LABOUR MP Jon Cruddas’s attack on the “witch-hunt” by the “right-wing, illiberal faction” around Keir Starmer is sharper and clearer than previous MPs’ protests at the leader’s conduct. Cruddas speaks out in defence of Neal Lawson, head of the pressure group Compass, who shared his threatened expulsion with the Guardian …

C alls to support striking workers received a standing ovation from Labour members, as a bacon butty was offered to tempt Sir Keir Starmer to visit a picket line. Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, moved a motion aimed at committing the next Labour government to bringing …

LABOUR was accused of funnelling public profit to shareholders today after it said that the party would not bring energy, rail and water into public ownership if they won the next election. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme today that the party had ditched its earlier manifesto ideals …

She said the Jeremy Corbyn era pledge to bring rail, water, energy and Royal Mail back into public ownership was now unaffordable. Ms Reeves has vowed to fund all day-to-day spending with tax revenues and to bring down Britain’s growing debt mountain. “To be spending billions of pounds on nationalising …

Inner London Crown Court will close next week due to a strike by criminal barristers over legal aid funding. A judge at the court today warned jurors that they will not be sitting next Tuesday as several days of walkouts begin along with a refusal to take on new cases. …

Trade unions are threatening walkouts by teachers, NHS staff, barristers and postmen this summer. They are balloting up to 1.5million workers over strike action on a level not seen since the Winter of Discontent in the late 1970s. Sir Keir Starmer yesterday again failed to condemn rail strikes that will …

S ir Keir Starmer has faced union demands to stick with Jeremy Corbyn-era policies to nationalise key industries. The Labour leader should not make “timid tweaks” to the system and instead aim for “deep and transformative change”, according to a motion moved at the party’s conference in Brighton The Communication …

Sir Keir Starmer tonight called for a second national lockdown to start immediately as the Labour Party claimed vindication for calling for a ‘circuit-breaker’ two weeks ago. The Labour leader also indicated that his Party will back the Government in a vote on a new England-wide lockdown due to take place in …