Party(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, a Labour member of Parliament and critic of the party’s reforms—that proposed extensive nationalization of ...
. . . Conservative party manifesto launch earlier in the week, but it’s intriguing to me that national insurance has been put front and centre of the Conservative election campaign. We all remember that Rishi Sunak actually wants to increase national insurance — a tax he now says he...
To the disappointment of some leading actors in the impact economy, the Labour party’s campaign manifesto made no mention of social enterprises or social investment – with social entrepreneur Bayo Adelaja describing the omission as“downright insulting”. The document, however, said a Labour ...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks at the Conservative Party's general election manifesto launch at Silverstone Circuit on June 11, 2024 in Towcester, United Kingdom. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images Outgoing Conservative leader Rishi Sunak slammed Reeves' tax-raising budget, a...
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...
briefly referenced policy into the legislative foreground – in exactly the same way the Conservative governments of Johnson and Sunak reneged on the main promises of the 2019 Conservative manifesto, and instead betrayed the Union of the United Kingdom by agreeing to install a border between NI and...
In the 1983 general election Callaghan’s successor, Michael Foot, presented a radical manifesto—dubbed the “longest suicide note in history” by Gerald Kaufman, a Labour member of Parliament and critic of the party’s reforms—that proposed extensive nationalization of industry, economic plan...