Keir Starmer and John Healey’s visit to Estonia to meet our troops sends all the right signals. It further buried the Corbyn past, assured our allies of our present and enduring commitment to NATO, and shows the solidity of our solidarity in helping ensure the safe future of Ukraine.Labour MP
Michael Gove, as the Secretary of State overseeing the Government’s repeated failures to deliver on housebuilding, should have used his recent speech to apologise to the rest of the country who he has repeatedly short-changed from the housing they need.However, even though we have seen a generation forget their dreams of homeownership,
After 13 years of the Tories, our NHS maternity services are in deep crisis. The latest threat is the proposal to close the maternity unit at the Whittington hospital, which serves the communities in Islington and Haringey. This is not an isolated issue: it speaks to wider challenges with maternity
The Hamas pogrom and civilian casualties in Gaza are expanding a profound faultline between the “Kibbutzim Left” and the “Nakba Left.” The first says that the creation of Israel was legitimate and that its collectivist communes and Labour Governments were beacons of hope. The second focuses on displaced Palestinians in
In a speech in Italy, the Prime Minister said that insufficient action would lead to growing numbers that will “overwhelm our countries and our capacity to help those who need our help most” warning that failing to tackle illegal migration would “destroy the public’s faith” in politicians and governments. Mr
This week the government of the United Kingdom has spent most of its energy putting forward and defending a new bill which it says will enable the deportation of illegal immigrants to Rwanda. Labour do not back the plan, Yvette Cooper has said the Party will “replace” the scheme, but
The first words in Labour’s mission to secure the highest growth in the G7 are “Britain has immense potential”. I couldn’t agree more with this and firmly believe that improving infrastructure up and down the country will unlock the jobs and productivity growth needed for us to kick on as
I was born and raised in Hackney. I have been a teaching assistant, nursery nurse, an assistant headteacher, a councillor, and now Deputy Mayor of our borough. I have seen how Hackney and our communities were empowered under a Labour Government, and I have seen how they have been systematically
One of the politicians I worked for said that a distinct advantage of being in the Cabinet was never again having to appear live on Newsnight. A junior minister could be dispatched to Broadcasting House for ritual disembowelment by Paxman or Wark, and the Cabinet Minister could be safely home
In the run-up to the 22 November election for the Dutch Parliament, the Tweede Kamer, pollsters predicted a tight result. Several parties were competing to become the biggest and potentially deliver the new prime minister after 13 years of Mark Rutte’s hegemony. Very few predicted the landslide win by the
