The delay in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, originally promised as a flagship piece of legislation aimed at strengthening workers’ rights, is a betrayal of the workers and trade unions who put the party into power.

On 25 February, the government website proclaimed ‘Prime Minister sets out biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War.’

By Jeremy Dewar Austerity returned to Lambeth, South London in a big way last month. The right wing clique that has dominated the local Labour Party for decades passed a budget threatening £99 million of cuts by 2029, frontloaded with £50 million coming in the first year. Details have not been fully revealed, but we […]

A PCS member In a move reminiscent of the coalition government of the 2010s, Rachel Reeves has announced a sweeping 15% cut to the civil service administration budget. Reeves’ spring statement was a clear signal to the markets that Labour will hold to their self-imposed fiscal rules by slashing the public sector and making the […]

By KD Tait As the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, unveiled her spring statement, the echoes of austerity reverberated across the nation. Although wrapped in rhetoric about investment and growth, the proposals unveiled are far from the transformative change this country desperately needs. Instead, they are a continuation of policies that prioritise the wealthiest […]

By Tim Nailsea In her Spring Statement on Wednesday 26 March, Chancellor Rachael Reeves announced a round of vicious cuts to disability benefits. The government is altering the points system for PIP to make it harder for people to claim the benefit. Claimants will have to display ‘greater difficulty’ in completing tasks, with a requirement […]

By Alex Rutherford Labour’s electoral strategy with regards to environmental policy was clearly to get their betrayals in early. They ditched the £28 billion a year pledge for green investment, replacing it with a quarter of that amount and tying it to private public partnerships. They promised not to rescind any of the 100 new […]

By Dara O’Cogaidhin Recent polls showing Reform UK ahead of both the Labour government and the Conservative opposition have sent shockwaves through the political establishment. In the general election campaign Reform took most of its votes from disillusioned Tories. But its voting base is now shifting, as it picks up support from disgruntled Labour pundits. […]

By George Banks Fearing the electoral threat posed by Reform, Labour has launched a fresh assault on migrants. Part of this campaign is a disturbing ad blitz, boasting of the highest deportation levels seen in five years. These advertisements are styled in Reform UK’s distinctive turquoise, with Labour’s branding conspicuously absent.  They have also launched […]

By Rose Tedeschi Liz Kendall says that young Universal Credit claimants are ‘taking the mickey’ by choosing not to work. Never mind that Universal Credit pays a standard rate of only £393.45 a month, less than a person could make in a week on a full-time minimum wage job. Never mind that millions of jobs […]

Labour's insistence that fiscal rules are rules is a warning to workers and unions that it plans to put profit first.