All news on the topic: Labour Party

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British steel will be used to make warships if Labour gets into power
The Labour Leader said he would make Britain a world leader in clean steel to provide jobs for the future as he promised to change how the country dishes out defence contracts
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Labour claims Rishi Sunak doesn't think schools should be safe in new attack ad
Labour launched a fresh attack on the Prime Minister as more than 100 schools and colleges were told to partially or fully shut over fears of dangerous concrete
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'Six job Tory' Brandon Lewis adds extra roles worth £150k on top of £86k MP pay
The top Tory resigned from Government when Rishi Sunak took over in October - and has since taken on a string of lucrative outside roles, earning at least £150,000 on top of his £86,584-a-year MP salary
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Only Fools and Horses star gives up after 10 hour A&E wait amid cancer treatment
Patrick Murray was sent to A&E by the chemotherapy department amid his treatment for cancer but the Only Fools and Horses actor gave up after a 10 hour wait to be seen
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Rail union leadership candidate at centre of campaign photo 'doctoring' mystery
Bonnie Craven is on the ballet for the TSSA General Secretary elections - but has refused to answer whether she had photos from a previous Labour campaign doctored
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Labour peer Lord Alan Haworth dies aged 75 during holiday in Iceland with wife
He was a secretary of the parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 2004, then became a member of the House of Lords
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Majority think Keir Starmer will be next PM over 'out of touch' Rishi Sunak
A poll by Ipsos UK found 56% of Brits think it it 'likely' Labour leader Keir Starmer will replace Rishi Sunak in Downing Street at the next election while just 28% of voters disagreed
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Ticket office closures 'could put lives at risk' as rail users left without help
The RMT's Mick Lynch said the plan to shut ticket counters at 974 stations across England would result in vital staff members being cut, leaving vulnerable passengers without support
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'100 days after routing the Tories in council elections, things are looking up'
Writing exclusively for The Mirror, Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds said vital cost of living support is finally being given by 22 new council leaders who got to work after election success
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Labour builds £47million war chest while Tory donations dip as election looms
Accounts published by the Election Commission show Keir Starmer's party boosted its fortunes, leaving Labour with a £2.7 million surplus in 2022 - despite losing nearly 25,000 members
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Brits back £1bn-a-year plan to give young and unemployed paid conservation work
Activist group Green New Deal Rising has called on Labour to pledge a new 'National Nature Service' to get young and unemployed people doing paid conservation work
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Tories must 'get on with' law change forcing killers to face victims in court
Killer nurse Lucy Letby shunned the heartbroken families of her victims as she was handed a rare whole life sentence at Manchester Crown Court for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others
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Anger as employment tribunal waits soar by 60% under the Tories
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner hit out at Tory "mismanagement" after figures showed people are waiting a massive 49 weeks between receiving their employment tribunal claim and their first hearing - 18 weeks higher than in 2010
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More women back Labour than at any point in last 50 years, figures show
Latest data released by think tank Labour Together shows 52% of women would vote Labour at the next General Election compared to 46% of men - a massive turnaround since the end of World War Two
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Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner hail 'inspirational' Lionesses
In a personal letter to the squad, Labour leader Keir Starmer wrote of the pride he felt after taking his daughter to watch the team in the Euros semi-final last year, saying she had been “immediately absorbed.”
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Tories blasted as 1 in 10 social housing residents claim to live in unsafe homes
Labour's Lisa Nandy called the figures 'scandalous' and promised the party would spearhead a warm homes programme and give greater rights and protections to renters
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Do you think school uniforms are too expensive - vote in our poll
Parents are spending on average £422 a year on secondary uniforms and £287 on primary uniforms amid the cost-of-living crisis, and we want to know if you think the education attire is too expensive
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'Keir Starmer must transform industries - not offer a sticking plaster'
Some 150,000-plus Unite members have been involved in over 900 disputes during the last two years, and our win rate stands at over 80%
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Labour to reaffirm green credentials with commitment to clean energy jobs
The pledge to boost employment comes as deputy leader Angela Rayner prepares to visit EDF’s Hartlepool Power Station to discuss the plans to make Britain a clean energy superpower
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Scottish by-election key 'stepping stone' in path towards a Labour majority
Labour is seeking to overturn the SNP's 5,320 majority at the by-election in Rutherglen and Hamilton West - a seat that has repeatedly switched allegiances since 2010
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Top doctor warns scrapping two-week targets won’t help 'biggest cancer crisis'
An oncologist said 'failure is failure however you measure it' as it emerged the NHS is set to ditch a target for suspected cancer patients to see a specialist within two weeks
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'The Tories are taking the fight to Labour - and Labour is still winning'
Labour is still winning in the polls despite aggressive Tory spin, says Fleet Street Fox. Perhaps that's because the Tories are spinning themselves down the plughole
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Spending on supply teachers surges by 50% amid 'dangerous exodus'
Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson accused the Tories of creating a 'perfect storm' in the teaching workforce, saying 'teachers old and new are leaving and with too few replacing them'
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'There's no place in politics for this abusive Tory but Labour can't ignore him'
Keir Mudie says he is worried as the Labour Party appears to be quiet after the latest comment made by Tory MP Lee Anderson as staffers think his views are too extreme to engage with
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'Tories must get to grips with asylum backlog and end the small boats nightmare'
Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock writes for The Mirror as a horrifying new Channel tragedy saw six die on a small boat and amid chaos in the Tories' policies toward asylum seekers