Press Archive - The Labour Party

The Latest from Labour

Thursday 9 December 2021 Jonathan Ashworth / Work and Pensions

Jonathan Ashworth responds to new figures on sickness

Wednesday 8 December 2021 Jonathan Ashworth / Work and Pensions

Jonathan Ashworth responds to Thérèse Coffey’s Select Committee comments

Wednesday 8 December 2021 Education / Schools / Stephen Morgan

Stephen Morgan MP responds to school ventilation funding comments

Wednesday 8 December 2021 Defence / Stephanie Peacock / Veterans

Stephanie Peacock responds to abolishing of visa fees for Commonwealth and Gurkha veterans

Wednesday 8 December 2021 International Trade / Nick Thomas-Symonds

Nick Thomas-Symonds comments on NAO ‘Progress with trade negotiations’ report

Wednesday 8 December 2021 Louise Haigh / Transport

Labour forces vote in Commons on Prime Minister’s rail betrayal

Tuesday 7 December 2021 Afghanistan / Foreign Policy / Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer responds to whistleblower testimony

Tuesday 7 December 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Education / Schools

Bridget Phillipson responds to Ofsted annual report

Tuesday 7 December 2021 Afghanistan / David Lammy / Foreign Policy

David Lammy responds to Foreign Office whistleblower comments

Tuesday 7 December 2021 Justice / Prisons / Steve Reed

Steve Reed responds to the release of the Prisons White Paper

Tuesday 7 December 2021 Stephen Morgan

Stephen Morgan comments on the Child of the North report

Tuesday 7 December 2021 Health / Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting comments on figures showing over 13,000 planned NHS operations have been cancelled in past two months

Monday 6 December 2021 Ed Miliband / Energy

Labour slams Government for treating North as ‘second class citizens’ over power cuts and calls for urgent independent inquiry

Monday 6 December 2021 Bridget Phillipson / Education

Government has no plan to deliver targets to protect vulnerable children, Labour warns

Monday 6 December 2021 Emily Thornberry / Justice / Steve Reed

Steve Reed and Emily Thornberry respond to reported Government plans to bypass Judicial Review rulings

Monday 6 December 2021 Crime / Home Affairs / Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper responds to the publication of the Government’s drugs strategy

Sunday 5 December 2021 Nick Thomas-Symonds / Trade

Nick Thomas-Symonds comments ahead of International Trade Secretary’s visit to the US

Sunday 5 December 2021 Coronavirus / Health / Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer calls for ‘renewed national effort’ to increase take up and rollout of the booster programme and halt delays to lifesaving treatments

Sunday 5 December 2021 Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson comments on launch of a national review following the murder of Arthur Laninjo-Hughes

Sunday 5 December 2021 Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy comments on reports that the Government’s levelling up white paper has been delayed

Sunday 5 December 2021 Coronavirus / Louise Haigh / Transport

Labour urges Ministers to consider price cap to tackle “scandalous” PCR travel costs

Friday 3 December 2021 Coronavirus / Equalities / Taiwo Owatemi

Taiwo Owatemi comments on final Government report into addressing COVID-19 health inequalities

Thursday 2 December 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Disabilities / Equalities

Labour demands answers on £70m “stealth cut” for disabled people hidden in the Budget

Tuesday 30 November 2021 Coronavirus / Home Affairs / Wes Streeting / Yvette Cooper

Labour calls for pre-departure Covid tests for anyone travelling to the UK

Monday 29 November 2021 Thangam Debbonaire

Thangam Debbonaire comments on the Committee on Standards’ Review of the Code of Conduct report

Monday 29 November 2021 Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner’s speech setting out Labour’s plans to clean up politics

Friday 26 November 2021 Jo Stevens / Sport

Jo Stevens comments on the ECB’s action plan to tackle racism in cricket

Friday 26 November 2021 Home Affairs / Immigration / Nick Thomas-Symonds

Nick Thomas-Symonds comments on France withdrawing Priti Patel’s invitation to Calais meeting

Friday 26 November 2021 Angela Rayner

Government ‘muzzled its own watchdog’ after Hammond let off for breaking lobbying rules

Thursday 25 November 2021 Liz Kendall / Social Care

Liz Kendall’s speech to the National Children and Adult Services Conference

Thursday 25 November 2021 Angela Rayner

Labour accuses Government of a corruption cover-up over £3.5 billion of Tory-linked Covid contracts

Wednesday 24 November 2021 Jo Stevens / Sport

Jo Stevens responds to publication of the fan-led review of football governance

Wednesday 24 November 2021 Home Affairs / Nick Thomas-Symonds

Nick Thomas-Symonds responds to tragic deaths of people crossing the English Channel

Wednesday 24 November 2021 Crime / Jess Phillips / Women and Equalities

Jess Phillips responds to latest ONS figures on domestic abuse

Wednesday 24 November 2021 Keir Starmer / Social Care

Revealed: How far Boris Johnson’s manifesto-breaking ‘working-class dementia tax’ changes will deepen regional inequality

Monday 22 November 2021 Business / Ed Miliband / Energy

Ed Miliband responds to Bulb going into special administration

Monday 22 November 2021 Business / Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer’s speech to the CBI annual conference

Monday 22 November 2021 Education / Employment / Kate Green / Keir Starmer

Labour announces Council of Skills Advisors

Monday 22 November 2021 Business / Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves responds to the Prime Minister’s CBI speech

Monday 22 November 2021 Angela Rayner / Coronavirus

Labour demands independent investigation into secret meetings after Minister admits no minutes of meeting with Randox

Friday 19 November 2021 Anneliese Dodds / Crime / Equalities / LGBT+

Labour pledges “tougher, fairer” hate crime laws to keep LGBT+ people safer

Friday 19 November 2021 Jack Dromey

Labour demands end of emergency rules used to hand out Government Covid contracts

Thursday 18 November 2021 Home Affairs / Immigration

Nick Thomas-Symonds comments on reports that the Government is speaking to Albania about offshore processing of migrants

Wednesday 17 November 2021 Liz Kendall / Social Care

Liz Kendall comments on the publication of details of the social care cap

Wednesday 17 November 2021 Anneliese Dodds

Anneliese Dodds’ Opposition Day Debate speech on Strengthening Standards in Public Life

Wednesday 17 November 2021 Angela Rayner / Coronavirus

Angela Rayner’s Opposition Day Debate speech on Randox Covid Contracts

Wednesday 17 November 2021 Keir Starmer / Press Releases

Keir Starmer responds to Conservative’s corruption

Tuesday 16 November 2021 Angela Rayner / Coronavirus

Michael Gove helped his personal donor David Meller get contracts worth almost £50 million

Monday 15 November 2021 Climate Change / Environment / Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer responds to the Prime Minister’s COP26 statement

Monday 15 November 2021 Home Affairs / Nick Thomas-Symonds / Security