Wednesday 20 October 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson comments on new inflation data Continue Reading
Monday 18 October 2021 Economy / Rachel Reeves Labour to force vote on cutting business rates, as new figures show over 300,000 businesses at risk across the country Continue Reading
Thursday 14 October 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Business / Economy / Energy Bridget Phillipson responds to Rishi Sunak ruling out help for energy intensive industries Continue Reading
Wednesday 13 October 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson comments on GDP figures Continue Reading
Tuesday 12 October 2021 Economy / Employment / Jonathan Reynolds / Work and Pensions Jonathan Reynolds responds to the latest ONS Labour market statistics Continue Reading
Monday 11 October 2021 Economy / Energy / Rachel Reeves Labour calls on Rishi Sunak to come out of hiding and support energy intensive industries Continue Reading
Sunday 10 October 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Business / Economy / Energy Labour says government needs to get a grip after Treasury slaps down Business Secretary Continue Reading
Wednesday 6 October 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy / Universal Credit Boris Johnson’s vacuous speech summed up this whole Conservative conference Continue Reading
Tuesday 5 October 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Economy Anneliese Dodds responds to Boris Johnson denying there is a crisis Continue Reading
Monday 4 October 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson responds to Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech to Conservative Party conference Continue Reading
Sunday 3 October 2021 DWP / Economy / Jonathan Reynolds Jonathan Reynolds responds to the Government’s ‘Plan for Jobs’ expansion Continue Reading
Friday 1 October 2021 Economy / Keir Starmer / Transport Emergency action must be taken by the Prime Minister to tackle ongoing food and fuel shortages – Keir Starmer Continue Reading
Friday 1 October 2021 Business / Economy / Ed Miliband Ed Miliband responds to factory growth slowing to a seven-month low Continue Reading
Wednesday 22 September 2021 Business / Economy / Ed Miliband Ed Miliband comments on the short-term deal to restart CO2 production Continue Reading
Wednesday 15 September 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson responds to comments from Rishi Sunak that he gives his blessing to private equity firms despite asset stripping takeovers Continue Reading
Wednesday 15 September 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson comments on new inflation data Continue Reading
Friday 10 September 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson comments on latest GDP figures Continue Reading
Thursday 26 August 2021 Business / Economy / Seema Malhotra “Chaos hitting supply chains is of the Conservatives’ making” – Labour responds to reports of worker shortages and disruption to supply chains Continue Reading
Wednesday 25 August 2021 Angela Rayner / Economy / Employment Years of falling wages under the Conservatives leaves workers over £1,000 worse off Continue Reading
Wednesday 18 August 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Economy Bridget Phillipson comments on latest inflation figures Continue Reading
Thursday 12 August 2021 Economy / Rachel Reeves Rachel Reeves comments on GDP figures Continue Reading
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