Tuesday 27 July 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Labour responds to IMF economic forecasts Continue Reading
Tuesday 20 July 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson responds to Treasury Select Committee call for tougher regulations for non-bank lenders after Greensill collapse Continue Reading
Friday 2 July 2021 Economy / Rachel Reeves Labour will make, buy and sell more in Britain Continue Reading
Wednesday 30 June 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Climate Change / Economy Labour slams Chancellor’s Green bond announcement after revelations his own Net Zero Review will be further delayed Continue Reading
Wednesday 16 June 2021 Coronavirus / Economy / Rachel Reeves Government’s border failure to cost UK economy more than £4 billion Continue Reading
Saturday 5 June 2021 Economy / Rachel Reeves G7 reach deal on taxing multi-national companies – Rachel Reeves responds Continue Reading
Thursday 3 June 2021 Business / Economy / Ed Miliband G7 Finance Ministers must deliver for developing countries or risk failure at COP26 – Labour Continue Reading
Thursday 3 June 2021 Economy / Rachel Reeves Labour calls on Government to stop letting the biggest multinationals off £131 million per week – and use the money to fund our NHS instead Continue Reading
Sunday 23 May 2021 Economy / Rachel Reeves Labour to force vote on global minimum rate of corporation tax Continue Reading
Thursday 25 March 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Anneliese Dodds reacts to Government announcement on business rates relief Continue Reading
Monday 22 March 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Full text of Anneliese Dodds’ speech in Birmingham on Labour’s vision to reverse 10 years of town centre decline under the Conservatives Continue Reading
Thursday 25 February 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Anneliese Dodds pre-Budget speech to the Institute of Global Prosperity Continue Reading
Tuesday 23 February 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Anneliese Dodds comments on ONS figures that show unemployment has reached 1.74 million Continue Reading
Monday 22 February 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Bridget Phillipson / Economy Labour to force votes to protect family finances and support jobs, businesses and the excluded through the worst economic crisis of any major economy Continue Reading
Monday 22 February 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy ‘Businesses needed certainty today, but this Conservative Government has left them in the lurch again’ – Anneliese Dodds Continue Reading
Monday 22 February 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Coronavirus / Economy Labour calls for expansion of support for self-isolation to avoid fourth national lockdown Continue Reading
Thursday 18 February 2021 Economy / Keir Starmer Starmer sets out plan to give British people ‘a stake in our national recovery’ Continue Reading
Thursday 18 February 2021 Economy / Keir Starmer Full text of Keir Starmer speech on A New Chapter for Britain Continue Reading
Wednesday 17 February 2021 Economy / Keir Starmer ‘No return to business as usual’: Starmer sets out ‘a new chapter for Britain’ based on security and opportunity Continue Reading
Tuesday 16 February 2021 Economy James Murray comments on calls by the Institute for Fiscal Studies for the Chancellor to “secure the recovery” at the Budget next month Continue Reading
Friday 12 February 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Anneliese Dodds responds to new GDP figures showing the UK economy shrank by a record 9.9% last year Continue Reading
Thursday 11 February 2021 Economy 3 in 10 families ‘worried about covering bills’ – Abena Oppong-Asare responds Continue Reading
Sunday 7 February 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Labour calls for tax cuts for hardest-hit sectors to protect jobs and help businesses build Britain’s recovery Continue Reading
Saturday 6 February 2021 Economy / Lucy Powell Lucy Powell responds to reports that pubs and restaurants could reopen in April if they agree not to sell alcohol Continue Reading
Saturday 6 February 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson calls for urgent action to secure our economy Continue Reading
Thursday 28 January 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Labour calls for fourth grant of self-employed support scheme to pay 80% of pre-crisis profits Continue Reading
Wednesday 27 January 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy What consumer boom? Blow to Chancellor’s plan for recovery as only three per cent of UK households plan to spend savings in 2021 – while one in five plan to rein in spending Continue Reading
Tuesday 12 January 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy “A responsible framework for a resilient economy” – Shadow Chancellor sets out Labour’s path to recovery and a better, more secure future for Britain Continue Reading
Monday 11 January 2021 Economy / Keir Starmer Keir Starmer’s speech on securing the economy for families during lockdown Continue Reading
Thursday 7 January 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Coronavirus / Economy Roll out vaccine “swiftly and safely” to save economy £5 billion a week, says Labour Continue Reading
Friday 1 January 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Coronavirus / Economy Insecure Britain: Chancellor’s Covid cliff edges push UK households to the brink Continue Reading
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 Continue Reading
Sunday 20 December 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy ‘Where’s the Chancellor?’ Labour calls on Sunak to set out economic support as restrictions tighten Continue Reading
Thursday 17 December 2020 Economy / Pat McFadden Pat McFadden responds to the independent review into the London Capital and Finance scandal Continue Reading
Thursday 17 December 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Anneliese Dodds responds to news that the furlough scheme has been extended Continue Reading
Sunday 13 December 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Revealed: UK customs body has just sixteen more staff today than five years ago as clock ticks down on Brexit Continue Reading
Friday 11 December 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Anneliese Dodds responds to the Bank of England’s latest Financial Stability Report Continue Reading
Tuesday 8 December 2020 Brexit / Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson responds to votes on the Taxation Bill Continue Reading
Wednesday 2 December 2020 Economy Labour accuses Government of ‘dragging its feet’ over efforts to tackle tax avoidance Continue Reading
Wednesday 2 December 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Labour seeks “genuine partnership” with financial services to deliver security and opportunity for every part of Britain Continue Reading
Monday 23 November 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Shadow Chancellor calls for “responsible choices” at Spending Review to deliver opportunity and security to every part of Britain Continue Reading
Wednesday 18 November 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Anneliese Dodds responds to an IPPR report on winter Coronavirus debt Continue Reading
Monday 2 November 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Anneliese Dodds calls on Rishi Sunak to “stop the last-minute scramble” and set out a proper plan for economic support Continue Reading
Friday 30 October 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Self-employed homeowners facing “perfect storm” this winter as plummeting support leaves some surviving on 30 per cent of pre-crisis income Continue Reading
Sunday 25 October 2020 Economy Sunak’s ‘Mask Tax’ to add £100 to the cost of keeping families safe Continue Reading
Thursday 15 October 2020 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson responds to Dame Louise Casey’s warning that the UK faces a ‘period of destitution’ Continue Reading
Wednesday 14 October 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Coronavirus / Economy Rishi Sunak refuses to deny he vetoed SAGE recommendation for Covid-19 circuit breaker Continue Reading
Friday 9 October 2020 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Sunak’s “sink or swim” Job Support Scheme more costly to employers than international equivalents Continue Reading