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Liz Kendall: ‘Ignorant’ to call Labour the party of welfare

inews.co.uk

As child poverty strategy is launched, minister hits back at Budget critics: 'We’re the party of work and the party that backs kids'

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Question Time fury as Labour MP dodges simple migrant query three times

www.express.co.uk

BBC host Fiona Bruce was overseeing the show as a row erupted between Reform UK's Zia Yusuf and Labour's Mike Tapp.

Labour-led council is forced to pay £138,000 after its own vans are clamped in carpark outside its offices

www.dailymail.co.uk

Swindon Borough Council's electric highway maintenance vans were parked at charging points outside its Civic Offices on Euclid Street in the Wiltshire town earlier this year.

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Northumberland councillor slams county's Labour MPs for votes on farming tax changes

Coun Guy Renner-Thompson says that abstentions "weren't good enough" as the vote was pushed through

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Question Time proved it – small boats stand in the way of a Labour re-election

inews.co.uk

The Prime Minister needs to 'stop the boats' but also faces a threat from the Greens on his left flank

Treasury trying to block Labour pledge on £250 ground rent cap

inews.co.uk

Angela Rayner leads backbench demands for ministers to keep their promise to reform leasehold system and save homeowners thousands of pounds

Why Labour MPs are starting to crack under pressure from farmers over inheritance tax

www.scotsman.com

Dozens of Labour MPs decided to abstain on a vote about inheritance tax changes that will affect farmers

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Labour misses target for hiring new teachers despite VAT raid on private schools to pay for them

www.dailymail.co.uk

Official figures show that for 2025/26, the Government only recruited 88 per cent of the required 19,270 new secondary school teachers.

Desperate David Lammy begs Labour MPs as rebellion over jury trials explodes

www.express.co.uk

Alarming projections from the Ministry of Justice revealed the number of trials waiting to be heard could surge from nearly 80,000 now to 130,000 in October 2029.

Labour launches self-driving vehicle consultation as question marks remain over safety, liability and hacking threat

www.dailymail.co.uk

The Department for Transport has today taken its next steps towards allowing driverless vehicles onto Britain's roads from 2027.

Preventing gender-based violence in trades is both a labour issue and an education one

theconversation.com

For women in the trades to have safer workplaces, the work of preventing gender-based violence must start long before anyone steps onto a job site.

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City councillor claims he wasn't suspended by Labour in new row

Assen Christov has spoken for the first time since his political grouping changed

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Nigel Farage says Starmer 'doesn't believe in democracy' as elections for 7.5m voters are postponed for TWO YEARS amid poll plunge - with even Labour MPs up in arms

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Four mayoral contests that were due to be held in May are being pushed back by two years, with accusations that the PM is 'subverting democracy'.

ADC Coalition Shaky As Peter Obi Insists He Remains Labour Party Member (Full Text)

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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi, says the coalition with the African Democratic Congress (ADC) is facing setbacks due to unresolved issues around zoning and rotation of key…

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WASPI women issued £180,000 update after Labour and DWP 'back down'

DWP boss Pat McFadden announced last month that the decision would be revisited in light of new evidence.

Women’s voices at the G20: action urged on economic empowerment, care work, health, climate justice and forced labour

theconversation.com

The G20’s Women 20 group agreed that action is needed to stop unpaid care work and forced labour, and improve women’s health and climate leadership.

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