Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting
TThree sentences in Labour's 1945 manifesto contained a simple but historic promise: Money should no longer be your passport to the best treatment. A new National Health Service should have health centres, more and better hospitals, and a suitable environment for doctors and nurses so that the people can enjoy the best that modern science […]
Labour loses 20 councillors in Nottinghamshire over Starmer leadership | Labour
Twenty local government councilors in Nottinghamshire have left Labor, saying the party had “abandoned traditional Labor values” under Keir Starmer's leadership. The move means Labor has lost overall control of Broxtowe Borough Council, which it won in 2023, and defectors include council leader Milan Radulovic, who had been a member for 42 years. Included. Councilors, […]
Mega Poll Says Farage Would Surge From 5 to 72 Seats, Labour Collapse
If an election were held today, Nigel Farage's Reform Britain would have a major impact, with the ruling left-wing Labor Party losing a parliamentary majority and nearly 200 seats, an analysis has found. Despite winning a landslide victory less than six months ago, analysis carried out by think tank More in Common shows support for […]
Labour backs plans for £15m fund to distribute surplus food from farms | Food waste
Labor ministers are backing plans for a £15m fund to redistribute food from farms that goes to waste, particularly over Christmas. Grants starting at £20,000 will go to the UK's not-for-profit food redistribution sector to repack and deliver farm food to homeless shelters, food banks and charities. The pledge was first taken by Michael Gove […]
UK Economy Flatlining Under Starmer’s Leftist Labour Government
Britain's economy recorded zero growth between July and September, having stagnated since Sir Keir Starmer's left-wing Labor government took office. BBC report The revised data came after a series of disappointing figures, with inflation rising at its fastest pace in eight months and the economy contracting unexpectedly in October. The CBI, one of Britain's leading […]
Louise Haigh’s exit dealt with quickly in contrast to Tories, says Labour minister | Labour
Decisions about Louise Haig's future were “handled very quickly” and presented a “huge contrast” to the way issues were handled under the Conservative government, ministers said. Pat McFadden, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, rejected suggestions that the transport secretary's resignation and the row over freebies were “disrupting” the Labor government, as it was not […]
Labour poised to announce £100m levy on gambling companies | Gambling
UK casinos and bookmakers will be required to pay £100m a year in levies to fund gambling research, education and treatment under government plans due to be announced later this week. It will be. Labor is believed to be poised to rubber-stamp the previous government's proposal to abolish a voluntary system that allowed industry managers […]
Faced with many foes, Labour needs to get out of its defensive crouch and on to the front foot | Andrew Rawnsley
a's slogan is a tongue twister. You wouldn't want to organize a “Sturmer, Farmer, Harmer” chorus with a group of people who've had their fill of cider. There have also been accusations against the Labor Party leader of “two tier keir'', “free gear keir'', and “gap year keir'', the latter of which refers to how […]
Labour plan for 100,000 new nursery places in England ‘unlikely to work’ | Early years education
The government's plan to use spare capacity in England's primary schools to create 100,000 new nurseries is “unlikely to succeed”, according to a study. The study attributes this to a geographic mismatch between capacity and demand, but leaders in the field say that staffing, providing sleeping places for the youngest children, They have expressed concerns […]
UK Farmer Tractor Protest Descends on Labour Party Conference
Hundreds of furious farmers rode tractors to a Labor Party conference in Wales to protest against the left-wing government's planned tax hikes on farmers. Following in the footsteps of farmers' protests across Europe, tractors gathered outside the Labor Party conference in Llandudno, Wales, on Saturday in anger over Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government's plans to […]