All news on the topic: Labour Party

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Labour's election war chest boosted by £6m from private donors in 2022
The party said the cash injection from wealthy individuals is the highest in a non-general election year since 2008. The biggest individual gift - of £2million - came from Lord Sainsbury, figures show.
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Angela Rayner urges businesses to look at introducing four-day working week
The Labour Deputy Leader told a room of around 300 business leaders to 'please' look at the results of a trial on a four-day working week. The landmark results revealed nearly all firms involved are continuing with the shorter hours
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Starmer blasts 'ghoulish spectacle' of Tories claiming to be Covid heroes
The Labour leaders comments come after the ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock published his Pandemic Diaries in 2022 - before the Covid public inquiry kicked officially kicked off
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Anti-waste hit squad will stop money being flushed down drain, vows Labour
Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Office for Value for Money will comb through spending decisions and have powers to investigate government contracts
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Brits back Ukraine joining the EU - even though UK quit bloc three years ago
A survey for the pro-EU European Movement UK revealed support for Kyiv joining the Brussels bloc - on the same day NATO's boss said Ukraine will join the alliance in the long-term
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Over 3,000 people sleeping rough as numbers rocket in cost-of-living crisis
The grim estimates from 2022 published by the Government show a 74% increase since 2010 when the snapshot was introduced. It also shows the first increase since a peak in 2017
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Your Brexit questions answered as Rishi Sunak signs new Northern Ireland deal
Alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Rishi Sunak unveiled his solution to the bitter trade impasse in Northern Ireland sparked by Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal with Brussels
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Hospital battle taught me NHS staff cannot go on like this, says Labour MP
Nurses pleaded with Shadow Environment Secretary Jim McMahon to tell ministers how bad situation in the NHS really is as he battled with an infection during a two-week hospital stay
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More to fixing UK economy than just Brexit, Keir Starmer tells business chiefs
The Labour leader made a speech setting out his 'mission' to give Britain the fastest, sustained growth in the G7 group of industrialised nations
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Tory violence failures means rape is decriminalised, Labour frontbencher says
Shadow justice minister Ellie Reeves said a Labour government would bring in specialist rape courts, tougher sentencing for rapists and a domestic violence register
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Brits 'to be poorer per person than Poland by 2030 under Tories', Starmer warns
The Labour leader will on Monday pledge to get Britain out of its current "doom loop" and achieve the highest growth in the G7
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'A once mighty Conservative broad church is increasingly UKIP-like warring sect'
Kevin Maguire examines the Conservative Party's downward spiral into chaotic infighting as the inept and splintered governing party descends into complete pandemonium
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Sheila Hancock says she wants to 'leave the world a happy place, full of life'
Iconic actor Sheila Hancock has revealed that she is more determined than ever to be heard as she celebrates her 90th birthday, and still calls out injustice where she sees it
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Ex-MP Luciana Berger rejoins Labour four years after quitting over anti-Semitism
Ms Berger's annoucement to return to her 'political home' after four years also came as Labour's general election war chest was boosted with a £2million donation from former donor Lord David Sainsbury
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Labour slams Tory justice chaos with record 17,000 victims waiting for trials
Labour's figures found that last year 12,460 cases had not come to trial for between one and two years, and 4,893 for more than two years
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Bid to make flexible working easier backed by MPs - what it means for you
Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi said she was "delighted" that MPs across the House backed her flexible working bill - which she said will make it easier for employees to stay in wor
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'Rishi Sunak delivered their medal - but broke his promise to nuclear veterans'
Nuclear veterans will get their long-awaited medal this summer - but Rishi Sunak still refuses to fulfil his promise to meet them, says Fleet Street Fox
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'Ambitious Starmer has air of Blair but is thinking big on how to fix broken UK'
Compared with Tony Blair’s modest proposals, Keir Starmer is offering five major 'missions' to transform Britain and, as Jason Beattie writes, he is thinking big on how to fix a Britain broken by years of incompetent Tory rule
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Surge in anti-LGBT hate crime reports leads to warning Tories are soft on crime
Labour's Anneliese Dodds said ministers are failing in their duty to keep public safe as the number of hate crimes recorded against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people soared by more than 40% in just a year
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Voters now believe Starmer best to manage economy as they turn on Sunak
The survey comes as a fresh blow to the Prime Minister whose party is trailing Labour in the national polls. One expert said it 'should ring some alarm bells in No10'
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Royal Mail strikers sacked for using word 'scab' in 'attempt to remove union'
The Communication Workers Union claims a large number of the suspensions involve the alleged use of the word “scab” - a name given to workers who break strikes and cross picket lines
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More than 1.3m with no job nor looking for work have a mental health condition
More than half of the 2.5million people who are currently 'economically inactive' due to long-term sickness have a mental health condition. Economically inactive people are those who are neither in employment nor looking for work
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Starmer's '5 missions' for Britain explained as battles lie ahead for Labour
Labour leader Keir Starmer set out his plans for a better Britain in a major speech in Manchester. Here's what his 'five missions' for the future of the country are and whether they can be achieved
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Keir Starmer unveils five ‘missions’ under blueprint for Labour Government
In a keynote speech in Manchester, Labour leader Keir Starmer slammed Rishi Sunak's 'sticking plaster' approach to fixing some of the country's greatest challenges
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Government assessment of anti-strike law slammed as 'not fit for purpose'
The Government's controversial law is currently making its way through Parliament and comes amid a wave of industrial action among desperate NHS staff, civil servants and railway workers