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Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech in the media briefing room of 9 Downing Street in central London, ahead of the Budget later this month. Picture date: Tuesday November 4, 2025
The Budget / 6 November 2025
Confronting false economic arguments
6 November 2025

The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP

PLAYING TO THE GALLERY: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the CBI National Business Dinner 2025 on June 5 2025
Features / 7 June 2025
We cannot cut our way to prosperity
7 June 2025

The British economy is failing to deliver for ordinary people. With the upcoming Spending Review, Labour has the opportunity to chart a different course – but will it do so, asks JON TRICKETT MP

Protesters during an energy protest outside the Palace of We
Labour Conference 2024 / 19 September 2024
We can act now to hold down fuel prices this winter
19 September 2024
JON TRICKETT MP says the tools already exist to stop price-gouging by the energy fat cats
Then Prime Minister David Cameron (right) and then Deputy Pr
Features / 22 June 2024
Austerity was never anything more than a big lie
22 June 2024
The last 14 years have completely disproven the economic myths the Tories used to set us on the path of cuts and devastation – we need massive direct investment to rebuild the post-industrial communities, writes JON TRICKETT
An asbestos warning sign, February 8, 2009
Workers' Memorial Day 2024 / 27 April 2024
Protecting workers' health must become a priority
27 April 2024
JON TRICKETT calls for a renewed commitment to driving up safety standards in all workplaces
Features / 30 December 2023
Inequality: fighting the ideological fight
30 December 2023
Most people understand and are outraged by the fact inequality is getting worse — we need to explain how and why the Tories are driving it, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Deindustrialisation was brutal — it left whole communities
Features / 7 December 2023
I remember Thatcher: she devastated Britain
7 December 2023
Thatcher’s ‘solution’ to the decline of the post-war settlement was to destroy much of our manufacturing base and throw millions out of work and into poverty, explains JON TRICKETT MP
Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
Features / 2 December 2023
NHS data given to CIA-backed Palantir
2 December 2023
Our private medical data is being outsourced to a company linked to the US deep state and run by an NHS-hating hard-right Trump-supporting billionaire, warns JON TRICKETT MP
Rishi Sunak gives a speech at the ‘bankers’ dinner’ at
Features / 27 October 2023
Our zombie economy shows the need for a wealth tax
27 October 2023
How can we justify working people continuing to get less and less while the already rich get more and more, asks JON TRICKETT MP
NHS junior doctors taking part in a march and rally in the c
Labour Party Conference 2023 / 9 October 2023
Labour’s task is to seize this moment
9 October 2023
Britain is crying out for change and investment in our crumbling infrastructure – will Labour have the courage to commit to the investment so desperately needed, asks JON TRICKETT MP
The featherstone pit, one of the hotbeds of the 1893 industr
Features / 7 September 2023
Lessons of the Featherstone Massacre, 130 years on
7 September 2023
JON TRICKETT MP on how the miners' dispute and brutal state response that killed two men on September 7 1893 shows a state using force to protect profits over workers' livelihoods
Features / 11 June 2023
It is time to take a stand for a democratic Labour Party representing workers, not big business donors
11 June 2023
JON TRICKETT MP appeals to MPs, Labour in the regions and affiliated unions to confront Labour's current dangerous trajectory
Features / 4 May 2023
Vicious inequality is hurting children in northern England
4 May 2023
My constituents cannot simply ‘work their way out of’ bad health, poor educational attainment, low life expectancy and deepening child poverty — the government has set them up to fail, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Features / 16 December 2022
It’s workers who create wealth – not billionaires
16 December 2022
Our economy operates in the interests of those who own and manage the wealth which workers create. The current strike wave is seeking to redress the balance, says JON TRICKETT MP
PM Rishi Sunak
Features / 8 November 2022
Lifting the bankers’ bonus cap is an insult to the British people
8 November 2022
How can it be justified to hand yet more riches to the already wealthy while poverty and foodbank use among ordinary people are on the rise, asks JON TRICKETT MP
RMT strike placard reading We Refuse to be Poor Anymore at a
Features / 23 September 2022
We will not be part of a warped experiment
23 September 2022
This new government of right-wing zealouts is determined to use Britain as a testing ground for extreme free-market policies, with us as the lab rats, warns JON TRICKETT
Liz Truss and Rushi Sunak at TalkTV's Ealing Studios, west L
Features / 7 August 2022
The Tory leadership contest shows neither candidate cares about the cost-of-living crisis
7 August 2022
This low-tax arms race shows things really can go from bad to worse for the British people, says JON TRICKETT
Features / 8 June 2022
'Levelling up' is doubling down on the impoverishment of Britain
8 June 2022
The Conservative government has claimed that ‘levelling up’ is central to their agenda, but even a cursory look at their policies shows they are clearly responsible for instead creating record levels of inequality, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Features / 30 April 2022
Taxing the wealthy not working people: we have the solutions
30 April 2022
Labour has broken ground on closing loopholes used by the super rich, but we need to think bigger and go deeper — changing the whole tax system to address inequality with the introduction of a 'wealth tax,' argues JON TRICKETT MP
People in Newcastle take part in the People’s Assembly nat
Features / 20 March 2022
Out of the pockets of the poor – into the pockets of the rich
20 March 2022
Ahead of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement this week, JON TRICKETT MP reminds us what the ‘cost-of-living crisis’ is really all about
General scenes at the Saltley coke depot in Birmingham, as t
50 years ago this weekend / 7 January 2022
The 1972 miners’ strike – a pivotal moment for working-class confidence
7 January 2022
JON TRICKETT MP looks back 50 years to one of the most significant industrial struggles in Britain, to see what lessons there are for the labour movement today
The Yorkshire working class is rooted in the coal mining ind
Features / 14 December 2021
John Guest is an example we need to follow today
14 December 2021
JON TRICKETT MP looks back at the history of the early Labour Party, where working-class people took to Parliament only to represent the communities where they lived and died, without concern for their careers or personal enrichment
Cartoon: Zog
Features / 18 November 2021
Money-grubbing Conservative MPs disgrace Parliament
18 November 2021
The cosmetic ‘facelift’ offered by the Tories in the Westminter corruption scandal fools nobody, as the need for drastic reform becomes obvious, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Features / 19 October 2021
Enough is enough – workers demand a pay rise
19 October 2021
We cannot let this be another decade where the super-rich steal an even bigger slice of the pie at the workers’ expense – that’s why I’m calling for a £15-an-hour minimum wage, writes JON TRICKETT MP
History / 23 September 2021
The Featherstone massacre: lessons for today
23 September 2021
Little has changed in the ruling class's contempt for and ruthless exploitation of working people over the last 128 years, argues JON TRICKETT
'We cannot tackle the social care crisis until care is taken
Features / 7 September 2021
Get the vulture capitalists out of social care 
7 September 2021
JON TRICKETT says the government's social care solutions punish the poorest
Features / 6 May 2021
Fighting Tory individualism starts with the NHS
6 May 2021
The Conservatives cannot see that failure to tackle health inequalities in society will hold back the success of the country as a whole. Resisting this ideology of selfishness must begin with forcing them to pay our health workers properly, argues JON TRICKETT MP
NUM members after carrying out safety work at Mardy Colliery
Features / 14 April 2021
High time for miners’ pension justice
14 April 2021
The miners who toiled away down the pit, creating the wealth and prosperity so enjoyed by the British state, should now get their due, says JON TRICKETT
HOPES FADE AWAY: Parade of shops in Lee Park Liverpool
Features / 9 February 2021
The Tory approach to the pandemic is punishing the north – again
9 February 2021
Soaring joblessness and rates of infection and death almost a third higher than the UK average show that the old industrial areas of Britain are victims of this government's wealthy-first policy, says JON TRICKETT MP
Features / 13 January 2021
Using the pandemic to rob the poor
13 January 2021
The Tories have capitalised on Covid-19 to line the pockets of their privateer pals and rapidly advance the austerity agenda, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Features / 16 December 2020
It’s time to end the housing crisis
16 December 2020
Labour must make pledging to build affordable housing central to its strategy going into 2021 and the fallout from Covid-19, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Features / 20 November 2020
It'll be a bleak Christmas on the Tories' watch – and the north will suffer the most
20 November 2020
Jon Trickett looks at the devastation brought about by a decade of Tory rule
Features / 21 October 2020
Ending child poverty must be only the start
21 October 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has further exposed the deep and entrenched levels of poverty that exists in our country — we need a bold new programme, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Features / 21 September 2020
The Tories are far worse than simply incompetent
21 September 2020
Of course the government is badly organised, but its response to the pandemic is deliberate — it is ideological cronyism on an industrial scale and the left needs to call that out, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Labour's Jon Trickett
Features / 25 June 2020
Renewing how we work in the most fundamental way possible
25 June 2020
Amid turbulent times for the left Momentum Renewal is laying the groundwork for a fresh approach to politics to escape the malaise which often follows defeat, says JON TRICKETT