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Tuesday 16 October 2018 Jon Trickett / Trade Union

Government’s £3m compensation to union nails the lie Ministers acted out of necessity

Tuesday 16 October 2018 Anneliese Dodds / Economy

Anneliese Dodds comments on reports about tax evasion schemes being operated in 21 countries

Tuesday 16 October 2018 Brexit / Jenny Chapman

Theresa May is in office, not in power – Jenny Chapman

Tuesday 16 October 2018 Cabinet Office / Jo Platt

Tories have failed to keep up with pace of change of technology – Jo Platt

Tuesday 16 October 2018 Austerity / Jon Trickett

John McDonnell responds to IFS report that the Government needs £19bn a year to end austerity

Tuesday 16 October 2018 Diane Abbott

The fact that hate crime has more than doubled in the last five years must serve as an urgent wake up call – Abbott

Monday 15 October 2018 Anneliese Dodds

Anneliese Dodds responds to new loopholes in EU anti-tax evasion rules

Sunday 14 October 2018 Business / Rebecca Long Bailey

Government’s zero emissions plan is hypocrisy of highest order – Rebecca Long Bailey

Sunday 14 October 2018 Margaret Greenwood / Universal Credit

Tories hitting young people with punitive Universal Credit sanctions

Saturday 13 October 2018 Barry Gardiner / International Trade

Tories must put economy and jobs first in negotiations – Gardiner

Saturday 13 October 2018 Fire Service / Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn pays tribute to the Fire Brigades Union at Centenary Service

Saturday 13 October 2018 Margaret Greenwood / Work and Pensions

Margaret Greenwood comments on Resolution Foundation report on the benefit freeze

Friday 12 October 2018 Margaret Greenwood / Work and Pensions

Labour call for Universal Credit gagging clauses to be removed

Friday 12 October 2018 Health / Jonathan Ashworth

Jonathan Ashworth responds to claims that there has been a reduction in the NHS’s incineration capacity

Friday 12 October 2018 Brexit / Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer responds to the publication of the latest no deal papers

Friday 12 October 2018 Environment / Rebecca Long Bailey

It’s a scandal that the Government has been allowed to force through fracking at any cost – Long Bailey

Friday 12 October 2018 Margaret Greenwood

Universal Credit gagging clauses are “utterly unacceptable”

Friday 12 October 2018 Economy / Peter Dowd

Years of austerity have pushed families into worryingly high levels of household debt – Dowd

Friday 12 October 2018 Economy / John McDonnell

John McDonnell responds to Hammond interview

Thursday 11 October 2018 Margaret Greenwood / Universal Credit

Now Esther McVey has admitted people will be worse off under Universal Credit, the Conservatives have no excuse

Thursday 11 October 2018 Louise Haigh

Brutal Tory cuts have left the police service at a tipping point – Louise Haigh

Thursday 11 October 2018 Business / Gill Furniss

Gill Furniss comments on the announcement of a further 74 Crown Post Office closures

Thursday 11 October 2018 Health / Jonathan Ashworth

Today’s performance figures reveal an NHS in year round crisis after years of Tory austerity – Ashworth

Thursday 11 October 2018 Angela Rayner / Education

The Tories have learnt “absolutely nothing” – Angela Rayner comments on Government plans to proceed with student loan book sale

Thursday 11 October 2018 Dawn Butler / Education / Jeremy Corbyn

‘Black history is British history’ – Jeremy Corbyn says schools should teach Black British history, Empire and slavery

Thursday 11 October 2018 Barbara Keeley / Social Care

£7 billion leached away from social care funding by austerity-obsessed Government – Barbara Keeley

Wednesday 10 October 2018 Jo Platt

Ministers have failed on flagship Verify programme – Jo Platt

Wednesday 10 October 2018 Home

Government fails to appoint new Independent Reviewer of Terror Legislation

Wednesday 10 October 2018 Angela Rayner / Education

Labour slams PM’s misleading claims at PMQ’s and calls on May to apologise and correct record

Wednesday 10 October 2018 Economy / John McDonnell

IMF figures are damning for the Tories’ eight failed years of austerity and the failings of our entire economic model – McDonnell

Wednesday 10 October 2018 Economy / Jonathan Reynolds

Jonathan Reynolds comments on GDP figures

Wednesday 10 October 2018 Energy / Rebecca Long Bailey

Energy market failing households – Long Bailey

Wednesday 10 October 2018 Margaret Greenwood / Work and Pensions

‘Buried’ DWP report shows no evidence that sanctioning helps – Greenwood

Wednesday 10 October 2018 Barbara Keeley / Mental Health

Mental health services still underfunded by Tory Government – Keeley

Tuesday 9 October 2018 Justice / Richard Burgon

New equipment alone can’t solve this prisons crisis – Burgon

Tuesday 9 October 2018 Diane Abbott

Government must clarify why it failed to seek assurances on death penalty from US – Diane Abbott

Tuesday 9 October 2018 Barbara Keeley / Mental Health

Barbara Keeley responds to NAO report on children and young people’s mental health services

Tuesday 9 October 2018 International Development / Kate Osamor

This is an outrageous distortion of the country’s overseas development programme – Osamor

Monday 8 October 2018 Business / Rebecca Long Bailey

Rebecca Long Bailey responds to reports that coal bosses delayed compensation to miners

Monday 8 October 2018 Angela Rayner / Education

Statistics Authority letter is a “humiliating rebuke” for Tory ministers

Monday 8 October 2018 Economy / Peter Dowd

New research demonstrates the utter failure of Tory austerity – Peter Dowd

Monday 8 October 2018 Angela Rayner / Education

“Schools still facing a funding crisis” – Rayner

Monday 8 October 2018 Housing / John Healey

This report adds to the mounting evidence of a housing crisis that Tory Ministers are failing to fix – Healey

Sunday 7 October 2018 Austerity / Ian Lavery

Brandon Lewis has confirmed that Theresa May’s end of austerity claim is bogus – Ian Lavery

Sunday 7 October 2018 Barbara Keeley / Mental Health

Keeley response to Education Policy Institute’s report on children and young people’s access to mental health services

Saturday 6 October 2018 Austerity / Ian Lavery

Lavery response to Theresa May’s Observer op-ed

Saturday 6 October 2018 Disabilities / Marsha de Cordova

Disabled and ill people throughout society are suffering as a result of the hostile environment created by this Conservative government – Marsha de Cordova

Saturday 6 October 2018 John McDonnell / Universal Credit

We have said time and time again that the rollout of Universal Credit should be halted to fix the many problems the Tories have created – McDonnell

Friday 5 October 2018 Rachael Maskell / Transport

The spike in crime on our railways underlines the importance of a properly staffed railway to keep passengers and employees safe – Maskell

Thursday 4 October 2018 Sharon Hodgson

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