All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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Communist Party general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS comments on the Budget and Spending Review
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak during a visit to Fourpure Brewery in Bermondsey, London, after he delivered his Budget to the House of Commons
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
HOT on the heels of his speech at the Conservative Party conference, Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s campaign for the party’s leadership and 10 Downing Street continues.
His Budget address was more like an election address, bigging himself up with bogus generosity wrapped up in a giant but as yet blank invoice.
He made much of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s uprating of this year’s economic growth rate in Britain to 6.5 per cent. It’s not difficult to achieve a much higher rate than last year’s peak-Covid level.
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