Our democracy is being systematically undermined by David Cameron’s government. Having narrowly won the general election, the Tories are now trying to rig the political system to keep themselves in power and weaken the opposition, both inside and outside parliament. By driving through a new voter registration scheme that will slash the number of young …
Jeremy Corbyn: I would like to thank the firefighters, mountain rescue services, police, armed services, engineers, workers at the Environment Agency, local government workers, and all the volunteers for all the work they did in keeping safe thousands of people from the floods that have affected this country. Two years ago, in January 2014, following …
Dear Prime Minister, The devastating floods over the last few weeks have exposed the complete failure of the Government’s approach to flood defence. We were therefore surprised to hear you claim at Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon that you “are spending more on flood defence schemes”. This is simply a misrepresentation of what has happened …
I thank the Prime Minister for his statement, a copy of which I received a short time ago. I wish you, Mr Speaker, the Prime Minister and the House a very happy new year. I hope that the Prime Minister will not misinterpret that greeting in any way whatever and will take it in the …
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I’d like to wish everybody a Happy New Year. There’s been a great spirit during the Christmas period: of families coming together and communities supporting each other, helping out neighbours, helping the homeless, helping out victims of floods in so many parts of the country. It’s that spirit of community and solidarity we need to …
by Ben Chacko Government reversals and the Oldham triumph mean the Labour leader enters 2016 with a spring in his step – but reshaping British politics will be a long hard slog, he tells Ben Chacko FOR a man on the receiving end of the worst media smear campaign of modern times, Jeremy Corbyn is …
