Vaz Visit to Oldham
I was pleased to welcome my colleague Rt Hon Keith Vaz to Oldham earlier this week, to talk with local people about Labour’s policies at the General Election. Keith received a warm local welcome and attended a house meeting with me to talk about Labour’s BAME manifesto which you can read in full here. The […]
Oldham Foodbank – numbers needing emergency help grow
Today, figures from Oldham Foodbank have shown that 5,334 people received three days’ emergency food from the foodbank in 2014, compared to 4,992 in 2013. Locally, 3,714 adults and 1,620 children have received three days’ emergency food and support from Oldham foodbank in the last 12 months. Nationally, over 1,000,000 people received three days’ emergency food from […]
£1,400 a year – the price for working families of desperate Tory promises
Labour has today warned that working families will end up paying the price of desperate Tory promises. A new audit of spending and tax commitments in the Conservative Party manifesto shows the Tories want to spend an additional £25 billion a year which they have not explained how they will pay for. This is the […]
Labour’s Women’s Manifesto: Fulfilling Potential and Raising Living Standards
Today Labour is launching our manifesto for women – setting out how we will enable women to fulfil their potential, as part of a plan to raise living standards for working families. In the last five years progress to close the gender pay gap has slowed. Stagnating wages and rising insecurity have fuelled a cost […]
Labour Manifesto: published today
Labour’s manifesto, published today, starts from the idea that Britain only succeeds when working people succeed. It shows how, by securing the nation’s finances, we are able to improve the family finances of the working people of Britain. The very first page of this Manifesto sets out our plan to secure the nation’s finances – with […]
Personalised One-to-One Maternity Care
A world-class NHS, fit for the 21st century, needs enough doctors and nurses with the time to care for patients. But over the last five years staff numbers haven’t kept pace with demand. This means midwives are not always able to offer woman one-to-one care during labour, as recommended by NICE. A failure to deliver […]
Tough Action on Tax Avoidance
This weekend Labour has announced a Ten Point Plan to Tackle Tax Avoidance and a £7.5 billion target to reduce avoidance and evasion. We will do this because we know that Britain will only succeed when working people succeed, which means everyone playing by the same rules. This week we have seen that the Tories […]
Face to Face Careers Advice for Young People
Labour will announce today our plans to guarantee face-to-face, 21st century careers advice for all young people, covering traditional academic routes into university and vocational options and apprenticeships. In recent months I have been contacted by local people, concerned at the ‘downgrading’ of careers advice and the Government’s move away from one to one advice […]
Abolishing the ‘Non-Dom’ Tax Rules
Labour is today setting out our plans to abolish the non-dom rules so that everyone who makes the UK their home pays UK tax. The non-dom tax rules currently allow those at the top to pay less tax through a special set of loopholes. Someone who claims ‘non-UK domicile’ (non-dom) status currently pays no tax […]
Labour will build the homes first time buyers need
With the general election taking place a month today, the test of which party has a better plan for tackling the housing crisis and restoring the dream of home ownership is who will build more homes. Labour has a better plan to get at least 200,000 homes a year built by 2020. This is backed by a […]