Twenty-five hours of free childcare funded by the state. Labour is promising to help working families beat the cost of living crisis – with a higher tax on banks to pay for it.
Labour’s shadow chancellor Ed Balls denies having anything to do with the “despicable” negative briefings of the party’s former spin doctor, Damian McBride, despite being close allies at the time.
Sweary, chair-kicking politics or St Damian the Repentant? Culture and Digital Editor Paul Mason reports on the return of Damian McBride, the former Labour adviser.
The tasks facing the Labour Party in Brighton this week are huge. Ed Miliband has to restore his authority after a disastrous summer, in which the Conservatives have gradually whittled Labour’s once-strong lead down to almost nothing.
Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband side-steps the issue of trade union reform at the Labour conference, but his bigger problem lies in a perception of his party as the “villains” of the economic piece.
Ed Miliband distances himself from the “reprehensible” actions of Damian McBride, as he tries to prevent the former Labour spin doctor’s memoirs from over-shadowing his party’s conference.
Gary Gibbon
Labour may be firing off policies, but they still have a long way to go before they win the public’s trust on the economy.
Polling research by Iposos MORI for Channel 4 News shows the Labour Party trails the Tories on economic credibility, and that the Liberal Democrats claim to be a “party of government” is not believed.
Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Ummuna tells Channel 4 News that Labour is winning back voters by convincing the public that the party is “fit to run the economy”.
Labour will abolish the “bedroom tax” and “strengthen the minimum wage” Ed Miliband says as he delivers a speech on the streets of Brighton on the eve of his partys annual conference.
Gary Gibbon
Labour’s “interim report” underlines that although the number of union members affiliated to the party might shrink, the intention is not to shrink the unions’ share of the conference in this phase of reform.
Almost a million trade unionists affiliated to Labour would not not vote for the party, according to YouGov polling for Channel 4 News.
Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband is promising a “new kind of politics” from Labour – but how will his recipe be reflected in the members attending next year’s annual party conference?
The chancellor and the shadow chancellor have now made their conference speeches. What do they tell us about their different views of the current economic crisis?
Far from “one nation” speeches and NHS debates, what is life like behind the scenes at Labour’s annual jamboree? Channel 4 News gets the inside scoop from those manning the decks.