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Will Labour let universities go bust?
Baroness Jacqui Smith is the new Minister for Higher Education. We spoke to her and asked if the record number of disadvantaged students getting a university place this year are actually getting value for money.
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‘This is not protests… this is picking on a community that people think are defenceless’: Labour MP on violent disorder
We spoke to Suresh Grover, who is director of the anti-racist charity the Monitoring Group, Paulette Hamilton is the Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington, and Gulwali Passarlay, who came to the UK having fled Afghanistan and now campaigns for refugees’ rights.
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‘Zero-tolerance approach’ needed for far-right violence, says Labour MP
We spoke to Paula Barker, who’s the Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree.
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Labour ‘failing a generation’ by scrapping social care cap
The Chancellor’s decision to scrap bringing in a cap on how much people pay towards their social care is a “tragedy” according to the architect of the plan.
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Labour reveal big planning changes including mandatory housing targets
Angela Rayner has unveiled an overhaul of England’s planning rules to help the government deliver the 1.5 million new homes it has promised to build.
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How big is the ‘black hole’ Labour says is in public finances?
The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told MPs the Government has inherited a £22 billion overspend from the Tories – and set out plans to reduce the deficit over the next two years.
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Ed Miliband ‘confident’ Labour will achieve clean power target by 2030
We spoke to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband about the plans for Great British Energy.
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FactCheck: Labour’s two-child benefit cap row – explained
The Labour party is caught up in a row over the two child benefit cap – and if it should be scrapped.
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Eluned Morgan becomes Welsh Labour’s first female leader
Health Minister Eluned Morgan has been confirmed as the first female leader of Welsh Labour.
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Starmer to suspend Labour MPs for rebelling over two-child benefit cap
The first rebellion of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership is expected in Parliament this evening as MPs vote on the Government’s legislative programme.
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Bibby Stockholm barge to close as asylum accommodation, vows Labour
The Home Office says it’s ending the use of the Bibby Stockholm barge for housing migrants, as the new Government begins to overhaul the asylum system.
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Pay disputes ‘another problem left by the Tories’, says Labour MP
We’re joined by Labour MP Meg Hillier, who’s Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
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Leeds violence ‘extremely distressing’ for community, says Harehills Labour councillor
The Labour councillor for Harehills, Salma Arif was on the scene yesterday urging residents to go home and remain calm.
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Labour is inheriting a ‘really strong economy’ – Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury
We spoke to Chris Philp, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and Former Chief Secretary to the Treasury at the time of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget.
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UK immigration: what’s Labour’s alternative to scrapped Rwanda policy?
One of the Labour governments first decisions was to declare the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda ‘dead and buried’.
