Starmer conference speech: LIVE 10:45am – David Lammy: No uncosted pledges. David Lammy, the shadow justice secretary, criticised former leader Jeremy Corbyn for making uncosted spending commitments during prior conference speeches and said Sir Keir Starmer would not make the same mistake. Lammy said: We will not be making proposals that cannot be costed, the public…
Determination, equality, inspiration and courage. These are the Paralympic values that played out every single day, in every single sport this summer during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. As our Paralympic athletes have now come home with 124 medals, we have a real opportunity to do two things. First, to recognise and honour their determination…
The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) is to disaffiliate from the Labour party, it has announced today. The union is angry with the direction of the party under Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, accusing him of a “factional internal war”. In a statement released this afternoon it berates Sir Keir for failing to…
Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds has said Labour would invest in neighbourhood policing, establish new domestic violence laws and would establish a new Child Exploitation Register in his keynote speech at the party conference today in Brighton. He opened by discussing how his childhood as the son of a Welsh steelworker led him to the…
It seems to many that Labour is in a perpetual civil war. With Andy McDonald stepping down from the shadow cabinet over a disagreement on a £15 minimum wage, party fractures appear greater than ever. But is that how party members feel? Politics.co.uk went to the Labour Party conference in Brighton to see if they…
Labour’s conference will debate a motion on raising the minimum wage to £15 this afternoon, just hours after the shadow secretary of state for employment rights resigned after claiming he was ordered to argue against the proposal. The Unite union will hold a vote on a motion calling for a £15 minimum wage and a…
The old adage that life is nothing more than a popularity contest is especially true in politics. The tenures of leaders across the political spectrum are defined by the level of support they retain amongst their own parties. So it may cause Sir Keir Starmer some concern that his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, has been showing…
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that Labour is ‘party of long term economic stability’ and that it would ‘tax fairly and spend wisely’ in her keynote speech at the party conference today in Brighton. She also summarised plans to scrap business rates, end charitable status for private schools, and annually invest billions toward a…
The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have gained a slim victory in Germany’s federal elections, beating the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU). According to preliminary results, the SPD has secured 25.7% of the vote, while the ruling centre-right CDU/CSU bloc gained 24.1%. The Greens came in third with 14.8% of the ballot, the…
Sir Keir Starmer appeared on “The Andrew Marr Show” this morning, with the ongoing Labour conference in Brighton providing the backdrop. As expected, Sir Keir was met with a barrage of questions, touching on Labour policy and his own personal philosophy. But arguably the most difficult questions focussed on Starmer’s leadership style. Questions over leadership…
