In its planA New Deal for Working People, released on 24 May 2024, the Labour Party outlined various reform proposals and pledged to introduce legislation within 100 days. The Labour Party’s manifesto promised to introduce this new “deal” in full and reiterated its intention to pas...
a number of leading parliamentarians and supporters seceded from Labour and founded the(SDP) in 1981. In the 1983 general election Callaghan’s successor,Michael Foot, presented a radical manifesto—dubbed the “longest suicide note in history” by Gerald Kaufman...
As food industry analyst Clive Black, a director at UK investment company Shore Capital, puts it: “Labour’s manifesto is a framework for the big thoughts.” Before the manifesto’s publication, Labour announced its Child Health Action Plan initiative, containing a number of measures to improve...
If anything the Tory’s manifesto plans have actually gone backwards. At the time of the Conservative party conference in October 2015, the prime minister and home secretary unveiled what appeared to be firm plans to tackle the jihadist and extremist threat in Britain. Detailed measures were outli...
“Private equity is the only industry where performance-related pay is treated as capital gains,” the manifesto says. “Labour will close this loophole.” In practice, that would mean taxing carried interest, or the profits paid to private equity and hedge fund ma...
“The proximate cause of defeat was not complicated or hard to see, but simple and in plain sight. We put forward a leader and a manifesto that voters thought unacceptable to such a degree that many were repelled. Too extreme economically. Anti-western. Lacking in patriotism. And therefore ...
A centerpiece of Labour’s election manifesto was to establish a publicly-owned clean power company, Great British Energy, capitalized with £8.3 billion ($10.8 billion) of public money and empowered to co-invest in key projects alongside industry. This will be set up in law as quickly as ...
Throughout the campaign Mr Howlin had been keen to play up the pragmatic nature of Labour’s manifesto, a consequence of “lessons learned” from its past chastening experiences at the hands of the electorate. He said, with regard to the Sinn Féin surge, that “that tide goes out as well...
The Labour manifesto talks about “one in eight” young people not being in education, employment or training — so-called NEETs — but given that “employment” usually means a dead-end job with no training for this category of worker, the actual picture is far bleaker than that. When y...
Robert, what’s your impression of how significant this employment rights package is? Robert Shrimsley I think it’s important in a few ways. First of all, it’s something Labour promised to do in its manifesto — an actually explicit promise — and therefore I think it’s important it ...