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Monday 21 June 2021 Business / Ed Miliband

£50m furlough bill on the way to closed or seriously struggling businesses

Tuesday 15 June 2021 Business / Rachel Reeves

Labour responds to latest ONS figures showing payroll jobs in May remained half a million below pre-Covid levels

Thursday 10 June 2021 Business / Ed Miliband

Labour warns of ‘perfect summer storm’ brewing for businesses and calls for Monday’s roadmap announcement to include details of economic support

Tuesday 8 June 2021 Business

Seema Malhotra responds to ONS figures on Covid-19 impact on pubs

Thursday 3 June 2021 Business / Economy / Ed Miliband

G7 Finance Ministers must deliver for developing countries or risk failure at COP26 – Labour

Monday 24 May 2021 Business / Ed Miliband

Labour reacts to news Stocksbridge Liberty Steel plant is to be sold

Monday 24 May 2021 Business / Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves responds to CBI’s ‘Seize The Moment’ report

Friday 23 April 2021 Business / Ed Miliband

Ministers must end “text for access” system and address £62 billion debt burden facing businesses – Labour

Thursday 25 March 2021 Business / Ed Miliband / Energy

Full text of Ed Miliband’s speech on how Labour would invest in jobs through our green economic recovery

Wednesday 24 March 2021 Business / Climate Change / Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband calls for an electric vehicle revolution for every part of the country to boost car manufacturing industry and create jobs

Wednesday 24 March 2021 Business / Energy / Lucy Powell / Steel

British steel needs “guarantees, not guff” as Labour accuses Prime Minister of “playing fast and loose with reality”

Monday 22 March 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Business

Labour urges Government to reform Covid loan schemes with 750,000 businesses and 2 million jobs “on a knife edge”

Monday 15 March 2021 Business / Chi Onwurah

Chi Onwurah responds to news that the UK is set to miss its R&D spending target after funding cuts

Thursday 11 March 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on reports that John Lewis could close more of its high street stores

Thursday 11 March 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on Rolls-Royce’s worse-than-expected £4 billion annual loss

Thursday 4 March 2021 Business / Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband comments on reports Business Secretary has axed Industrial Strategy Council

Wednesday 10 February 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on news that beer sales plummeted 56% in 2020

Monday 8 February 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Businesses face £50 billion ‘bombshell’ in April as coronavirus support packages end

Monday 1 February 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on ASOS completing purchase of Arcadia brands

Thursday 28 January 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell responds to fall in number of cars built in the UK

Tuesday 26 January 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on news that Rolls-Royce expects a loss of £2bn in 2021

Monday 25 January 2021 Business / Pat McFadden

Pat McFadden comments on reports MasterCard could increase fees for UK purchases from the EU

Monday 25 January 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on news Boohoo will not take on high street stores or workforce as part of Debenhams purchase

Sunday 24 January 2021 Business / Ed Miliband

Government considers ripping up right to work no more than a 48-hour week – risking a 15 per cent rise in those working longer hours

Friday 22 January 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on report showing Coronavirus crisis led to closure of thousands of licensed premises

Thursday 21 January 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell responds to comments by Sage scientists that hospitality businesses should be closed until May

Tuesday 19 January 2021 Business / Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband responds to Kwasi Kwarteng’s admission that employment protections are to be reviewed

Friday 15 January 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on Supreme Court ruling in favour of small firms receiving payments from business interruption insurance

Tuesday 12 January 2021 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on British Retail Consortium 2020 figures

Monday 11 January 2021 Business / Ed Miliband

Sunak must come up with plan to support small businesses – Ed Miliband

Friday 8 January 2021 Business / Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband responds to Alok Sharma & Kwasi Kwarteng’s appointments

Monday 28 December 2020 Business / Ed Miliband / Jo Stevens

More than £3bn wiped from UK’s visitor economy this winter as Labour calls for Ministers to support struggling hotels, hospitality and high streets

Tuesday 22 December 2020 Business / Ed Miliband

Almost 175,000 businesses hit by Christmas closures under last minute Tier 4 restrictions as Labour calls for Hospitality and High Street Fightback Fund

Monday 21 December 2020 Business / Coronavirus / Rachel Reeves

Labour urges Government to use spare COVID testing capacity in ports chaos

Monday 21 December 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Business / Economy

Almost 700,000 businesses fear they’ll go under in the next three months – and the Chancellor is nowhere to be seen

Wednesday 16 December 2020 Business / Lucy Powell

Labour calls on Govt to use the £2 billion cash handed back by supermarkets to help hard-hit high street businesses

Thursday 10 December 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Business

Government waives through “smuggler’s charter” as it struggles to avert Brexit gridlock at UK ports

Thursday 10 December 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Business

Anneliese Dodds responds to latest GDP figures

Wednesday 9 December 2020 Business / Lucy Powell

Labour tells government to get a grip as ports chaos threatens Christmas orders

Wednesday 9 December 2020 Brexit / Business / Ed Miliband

Businesses have been sounding alarm for weeks about problems at ports – Ed Miliband

Wednesday 9 December 2020 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell comments on Institute of Directors survey showing more than a quarter of businesses unclear on Brexit readiness

Tuesday 8 December 2020 Business / Ed Miliband

PM’s failure to deliver caused the loss of major employers in Bridgend

Saturday 5 December 2020 Business / Ed Miliband / Keir Starmer

Labour hails monumental effort of local businesses during pandemic on Small Business Saturday

Friday 4 December 2020 Business / Ed Miliband

New analysis ahead of Small Business Saturday reveals hundreds of thousands of small businesses might not make it to Spring

Thursday 3 December 2020 Business / Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband responds to BiFab entering administration

Tuesday 1 December 2020 Business / Lucy Powell

Last-minute payment for pubs forced to close will leave most more than £3,000 a month worse off

Tuesday 1 December 2020 Business / Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell responds to Debenhams talks collapsing

Monday 30 November 2020 Business / Chi Onwurah / Security / Stephen Kinnock

Labour pushes Ministers to strengthen national security and protect UK businesses

Monday 30 November 2020 Business / Lucy Powell

Business grants scheme ‘betrayal’ will level down, Labour warns

Sunday 22 November 2020 Business / Lucy Powell