The government should fit solar panels to “pensioner bungalows” as part of a strategy to combat Reform UK, a Labour MP has said. Jo White, the MP for Bassetlaw, said voters needed to see a “tangible benefit” from Labour’s climate policies – and she called for grants for heat pumps and solar panels to be...
Simon JackBusiness editor WPA Pool/Getty Images One of the key audiences that the prime minister and the chancellor will have to convince at this year’s Labour conference are the business leaders they targeted with a charm offensive before the election last July. The party trumpeted itself as “the natural party of business” and Rachel Reeves...
It is just 14 months since the general election. Not yet 500 days. Labour has a working majority of 161. But here on the banks of the Mersey, it really doesn’t feel like that. I am reminded of Conservative conferences of old, where a circus would accompany Boris Johnson from the railway station to each...
Getty Images Eluned Morgan warns voters not to “gamble” on Reform’s “divisive noise” or Plaid’s “fantasy politics” Labour is facing a “hell of a fight” against the “divisive nationalism” of Plaid Cymru and Reform, Wales’ first minister has told the party’s Autumn conference. Eluned Morgan accused her political opponents in the May Senedd election of...
A Labour peer has repeated his call to “abolish the Treasury”, and says the government should shift its focus to industrial revival to radically reshape the British economy. Maurice Glasman, the founder of the Blue Labour campaign, has said he and Blue Labour supporters needed to intensify their calls for “economic radicalism”. Speaking at a...
Police have made a number of arrests at a protest in support of Palestine Action outside the Labour party conference centre in Liverpool. A group of around fifty people sat on the grass outside ACC Liverpool holding handwritten placards reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. Merseyside Police said officers “are in the process...
Andy Burnham has warned against “underestimating the peril the party is in” at a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference. The mayor of Greater Manchester continued his criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership at events at the Liverpool conference, telling audiences he would not shy away from debate on Labour’s future. Despite a backlash...
Matt ChorleyBBC Radio 5 Live and Joshua Nevettpolitical reporter Getty Images Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is facing a backlash from dozens of Labour MPs over suggestions he could mount a challenge to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership. Burnham has criticised the Labour government in a series of interviews, and says he has been...
The construction of three new towns will begin before the next general election, Labour has pledged. A taskforce has recommended 12 locations in England for development, with three areas – Tempsford in Bedfordshire, Leeds South Bank, and Crews Hill in north London – identified as the most promising sites. Housing Secretary Steve Reed is expected...
The prime minister has warned Reform UK “will tear this country apart” ahead of the Labour party conference. Arriving in Liverpool on Saturday, Sir Keir Starmer said Reform’s plans to abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) for legal migrants was one of “the most shocking things” Nigel Farage’s party had said. Sir Keir said the...